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BNP’s unfolding strategic stance: Straddling the aftermath of a revolutionary ‘event’ and realpolitik
The BNP’s stance, which shifted from initially aligning with the students to later portraying the president as a stabilising figure, could risk dissipating the transformative potential of this “moment.”
Column by Mahfuz Anam: From people to a ‘bubble’
Today's Awami League only speaks to the mirror because it cannot tolerate the retort that would come if it spoke to the people.
Why must the poor be collateral damage of BNP-AL standoff?
Political parties must find a constructive way to end this impasse
Polls schedule is not a cut-off point for dialogue
Without political reconciliations, we're headed for another violent, one-sided election
Politics of Fire
Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.
Don’t let Dhaka turn into a battlefield
Let good sense—and constitutional obligations—prevail
Column by Mahfuz Anam: ‘Gladiatorial’ street contests and prospects of fair elections
National election Bangladesh: As the election is getting nearer, the possibility of a nightmarish pre-election period is driving fear and panic among the people.
AL, BNP to march city streets today, tomorrow
With the national polls around six months away, the AL and the BNP are going to hold programmes and counter-programmes to show off their strength on the streets
A short history of AL’s challenging times
The next few months are perhaps going to be the toughest test for Awami League’s resilience in recent history.
AL to discipline 23 rebel-backer MPs
The ruling Awami League has listed more than twenty of its lawmakers who will have to face disciplinary action for backing rebel candidates in Wednesday's municipality elections, say party insiders.
BNP men come under attack
Clashes, and attacks and arrests of BNP men marked the day before the much-hyped municipality polls today, casting doubt over the election's being free and fair.
'No' is tradition
There is no doubt that holding a fair and free election in a democratic manner brightens a ruling party's image. Why, then, do the parties in power seldom follow the path to take its image to new heights?
AL to face debacle if polls are fair
BNP chief Khaleda Zia has said the Awami League is spreading propaganda in the name of an election “survey”.
Hasina to select AL-backed mayoral aspirants
Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina will select the party-backed mayoral candidates for the upcoming elections to 234 municipalities.
BNP is getting peeled like an onion
Famous American poet, writer and editor, Carl Sandburg, once said that life is like an onion which you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Is Bangladesh on the right track?
A quest for inclusive democracy, once timed-out, needs to be undertaken in good time.
Analysis: When they fall in love with the constitution…
The two archrivals ruling Awami League and BNP seem to have swapped their stance on protecting and upholding the constitution.
Eviction drive only to show DMP boss
Hawkers, who block the DMCH emergency gate with their stalls, are evicted when VIPs go there as if the authorities are more worried about how they look before the VIPs
Stop this carnage
LET me start this piece today with a joke that fits in here so perfectly. God created this subcontinent as a wealthy, fertile and prosperous land. The other nations protested about this favouritism. So, God in His infinite wisdom willed the type of governments we have had in this region to balance matters. We have been cursed since then.