In recent times, the BNP has demanded an early December 2025 election
There is an urgent need for an announcement on a deadline for the election.
The return of multi-party democracy would be the first step necessary to reset Bangladesh’s embittered political culture.
One cannot claim to be anti-Hasina while displaying the same defining characteristics as our former prime minister.
Survey says BNP leads with 41.7%, but data is from a fraction of total sample.
Scenarios point towards a December-January election
If the interim government fails to be neutral, it cannot hold the election, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday. Then a neutral government would be needed, he said.
We must first acknowledge that the Bangladesh Constitution has failed to maintain a robust democratic system.
What needs to be done in today’s Bangladesh, as the country is trying to move forward?
A civil society platform has questioned the role of the Election Commission over its role in the union parishad elections in view of the poll-time irregularities and violence.
BNP claims the public boycotted the “farcical” union parishad elections and demanded a re-election in all those unions.
Another 639 unions in 47 districts go to the polls today, a week after violence in the first phase of the elections left around two dozen people dead.
The people of several villages of three unions of Mathbaria upazila and Bhandaria upazilas under the district are passing days amid fear
The BNP will stay in the union parishad elections so that it can expose “the real face of the Awami League and the Election Commission”.
An Awami League leader's desperate attempts to clinch victory for his party favourite in Tuesday's polls to Dhanisafa union parishad cost five lives in Mathbaria of Pirojpur, according to locals.
The ruling Awami League has claimed that the union parishad election was held in a free, spontaneous, and transparent manner while its political opponent BNP termed the polls “farcical under a partisan Election Commission”.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday claimed that the first phase of the union parishad polls was “acceptable” as voting was “peaceful” in most of the polling centres.
The first phase of the Union Parishad (UP) elections begins, marking the start of the country's maiden UP-level polls on partisan lines. Two people are injured in Satkhira and voting remains suspended in 11 polling centres in Satkhira, Barisal and Patuakhali so far.
Over 700 unions will go to polls today against the backdrop of the deadly violence during electioneering in the last couple of weeks.
