The United States has ruled out any perception that it does not recognise Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s fourth straight term. At a regular briefing at the US Department of State on January 18, a journalist asked, “So, when you say that the election results in Bangladesh were not credible, free, or fair, does this imply that the US ...
Dr. Pranab Kumar Panday: In the build-up to Bangladesh’s January 7 national election, the political landscape was fraught with tension. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by its acting chairman Tarique Rahman, mounted a campaign urging voters to boycott the election, in an attempt to disrupt the democratic process. Despite these effo...
BNP-Jamaat and their allies suddenly called for a strike on Friday (January 5) the day before and on the day of the election. Along with that, four people were burnt to death on a moving train. At the same time, from the night of January 4, they attacked the polling centres preparing for the elections and the campaign camps of the candidates. In...
A series of threats and ultimatums issued by BNP leaders followed by involvement of BNP-Jamaat men in burning buses and other vehicles alongside defending a corrupt leadership contradict the party’s claim of lack of level-playing field, Sajeeb Wazed, who spearheaded the Digital Bangladesh campaign, tweeted. The tweet posted with a video o...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the IT adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has called on the younger generation to vote for the 'boat' symbol taking a stand against the "arson violence of BNP and Jamaat". "Now is the time for elections, and we encounter another problem, which is the terrorism and arson violence of the BNP and Jamaat. But there is a suit...
Calling BNP-Jamaat alliance a "terrorist outfit," Sajeeb Wazed, ICT affairs advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said attacks on law enforcers are aimed at completely breaking down the law and order. Sajeeb Wazed also came down heavily on the recent public comment by a BNP leader who "openly lauded" the brutal 28 October killing of a police...
As the election is approaching, BNP's indecision and conspiracy regarding the polls have become conspicuous, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor and her son Sajeeb Wazed. In a post from his verified Facebook page on Wednesday, he remarked that it is paramount for a political party to take a judicious decision at the right time becau...
Describing the national election in 2018 as “fair and participatory” – while speaking to the media – in the morning on election day, BNP changed its tune in the evening as results were coming in, Sajeeb Wazed, ICT Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has said. Posting a compilation of news clips on his verified F...
Brandishing firearm a local BNP leader fired bullets on activists of Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League in Natore today while they were holding a peace rally, rising the specter of violent politics BNP Jamaat combine demonstrated back in 2013. A video of the attack shows, the acting convener of BNP’s local unit, Sahidul Islam Bacch...
Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has called out BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for criticizing Somoy TV for its report on the convictions of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman. In a post on his verified Facebook page yesterday, Sajeeb Wazed wrote: “Somoy TV's report was based on ...
PM’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said on Saturday that BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas was one of the four MPs of Dhaka under the BNP-Jamaat coalition government who maintained regular contact with top terrorists on behalf of Tarique Rahman. “It was Abbas who fraudulently made the deeds of land worth Tk 800 crore ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Information and Technology Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has posted a video clip on his verified Facebook page about the funding of militants during the BNP-Jamaat government. In the video shared on Wednesday, he alleged that the BNP leaders used to send money to militants through the hands of the police. In the video...
Over a period of two decades, BNP in collaboration with its extremist ally Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir maintained a notorious political culture marked by homicidal assaults on law enforcement and innocent bystanders, premeditated vandalism and firebombing on transportation, arson attacks against minorities and othe...
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