If our political culture is to change, the functioning of our political parties must change dramatically.
This is the second instalment of a three-part series based on a foresight analysis centred on Bangladesh’s transition.
While the BNP has been pressing for national elections for months, it has avoided conflicts with student leaders and the interim government.
Leaders of the 12-party alliance, who previously organised joint movements with the BNP against the former Awami League government, have expressed support for the BNP’s position on holding the next parliamentary elections by 2025.
Return of caretaker system could ensure free and fair elections
The electoral process finally begins amid huge expectations
Elections are of paramount importance to a country’s quality of democratic governance.
South Asia Institute Director Michael Kugelman offers his insights
The EC has repeatedly said one thing and did something other than that, if not the opposite.
Two more people, who were critically injured in violence over the fourth phase of the union parishad polls held on Saturday, died yesterday.
The ongoing Union Parishad polls have become the bloodiest election in Bangladesh history.