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?
Are three months enough to hold a free and fair election? Because that is not the only concern at hand.
Seven political parties, including the BNP and Jamaat, yesterday said Prof Muhammad Yunus-led interim government can take the time necessary for creating an atmosphere conducive to holding a free and fair election.
Razwan-uz- zaman Rajib of Channel 24 was elected as the new president and Samon Hossain of Dainik Manab Zamin was re-elected as general secretary of the Bangladesh Sports Press Association (BSPA) for the next two years.
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.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad says the Election Commission does not get the level of cooperation it desires from the local administration in arranging elections, causing polls violence and irregularities.
The Election Commission has deployed paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) for union parishad elections to avert any violence.
Masked miscreants brandish guns and pick up an independent chairman candidate of the Union Parishad polls from his house before killing him in Bandarban’s Ruma upazila.
