National Citizen Party (NCP) Chief Organizer (Northern Region) Sarjis Alam today stressed the need for fundamental reforms in the country ahead of the upcoming national elections, scheduled to be held in February next year. The NCP leader also demanded the trial of those responsible for the killin
Kazi Sazzad Zahir Chandan and Abdullah Al Kafee Ratan will lead the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) as the president and general secretary for the next four years. They were elected for the topmost party posts during a meeting of the 43-member central committee, which was elected during the re
BNP on Wednesday called as ‘blatantly false and fabricated’ an interview published in Kolkata-based Indian news outlet Ei Samay, which claimed that its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir wants Awami League and Jatiya Party in the next national election. In a statement issued
Police have detained more than 50 people after supporters of the Awami League, banned from political activities, and its affiliates staged fresh anti-government protest marches across Dhaka. Thousands of party leaders and activists simultaneously took to the streets of the capital’s Gulistan
Awami League activists’ harassment of BNP and National Citizen Party (NCP) leaders who accompanied Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to the UN General Assembly session in New York has cast further doubt on the banned party’s political future, according to BNP leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdh
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today (Wednesday) said there is no secret alliance between the party and the fallen fascist Awami League. "We must remain alert to ensure that those who have previously cooperated with the Awami League do not attempt to change their stance," sai
Police have arrested Awami League leader and former Chhatra League general secretary Ajoy Kar Khokon. He was arrested in Dhaka’s Gulshan early on Wednesday morning by the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). “He was organising the recent marches by the Awami Leagu
Police have arrested former female councillor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Mohila Awami League leader Hajera Khatun Nargis from the Gulshan area. Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Talebur Rahman said she was arrested from Gulshan on Tuesday night, UNB rep
Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Kolkata-based daily Ei Samay’s report on him claiming that the Jamaat-e-Islami’s demand linked to proportional representation was a pressure tactic was “fabricated”. Amid debate over the report on Tuesday, Fakhrul, now
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday alleged that smear campaigns with new narratives are being carried out targeting BNP to eliminate it. “We are still the opposition. We are constantly being subjected to different kinds of propaganda and misinformation,” he
The Jamaat-e-Islami has protested BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s remarks, in which he suggested the party’s recent demand for proportional representation voting was a strategy to pressure the BNP. In a recent interview with Kolkata daily Ei Samay, Fakhrul said Jama
BNP senior leader Selima Rahman on Tuesday alleged that the defeated forces of 1971 are trying to obstruct the upcoming national election through street protests in the name of demanding a Proportional Representation (PR) system. “We are observing that even after the announcement of the elec
The National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Sarjis Alam has insisted that the party must be allocated the “Shapla” (water lily) as its election symbol for the upcoming national polls. Otherwise, the student leader who emerged during the July Uprising, said: “We will see how the elect
