Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Affairs Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy said BNP leaders resorted to spreading propaganda centering the 2018 national election due to their outright failure to gain public confidence, coupled with a glaring leadership crisis, and intensified intra-party feuds. He made the comments in a facebook post from his verified...
Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina today called upon the countrymen to be cautious so that BNP cannot thwart the upcoming national election through any evil move, saying the election will be held on time and the people will exercise their voting rights freely. "Election will be held in this country at any cost, and peo...
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh will plunge into an era of darkness if her party doesn't remain in power. "If the Awami League does not remain in power, the country will again return to the era of darkness. But, I know, the people of Bangladesh will not want to go back to the darkness," she said. She...
Hiren Pandit: Only history can tell how many more years of struggle and sacrifices are needed to completely erase the scandalous chapter written in the life of the Bengali nation by killing the greatest Bengali Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family on August 15, 1975! Not only 75, but August reminds us of the incident of 21 August 20...
It was a long, dark plot. A chilling conspiracy was getting final touches in an eerie August of 2004, a month that brings to mind the memories of a past bloodbath. The plot for a high-profile assassination was awaiting approval, again. On August 14: At Hawa Bhaban -- the alternative powerhouse of the BNP-led coalition government. At least nin...
One of the biggest militant attacks in Bangladesh’s history was the grenade attack on Awami League President Sheikh Hasina’s rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. The then opposition leader and now prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had become the target of a terrorist attack on an anti-terrorism rally. Twenty-four people were...
Fear was written all over their faces. Some were survivors of gang rape, some had their hands and legs chopped off, while others were still reeling from the shock of losing loved ones. All of them belong to different minority communities and their allegiance to Awami League was the only fault according to BNP-Jamaat cadres who unleashed terror o...
Habibullah Mizan: The frequent political rallies, which never took place elsewhere in the world, create untold suffering for the people and the densely populated city dwellers have become tired of such activities in the name of politics. The BNP leadership claims it is crying for democracy in Bangladesh, but leading political observers opine t...
Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan: Recently some American Congress Members indulged in an exercise of producing orientalist discourses on Bangladeshi politics. Two instances of such acts are prominent. In the first instance, a group of six members wrote a letter to President Biden “to stop human rights violations by the Sheikh Hasina Governm...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon all to remain alert as none can recapitulate 2013-14 like arson terrorism in the country in the name of the movement. "I urge all to remain alert as none can harm Bangladesh by repeating 2013-14 like arson terrorism," she said. The premier was inaugurating 50 more model mosques and Islamic cultural ...
Prof. Dr. Mizanur Rahman: Democracy survives and thrives on various opinions provided by and debates by political parties, civil society organizations, and individuals. However, if the opinions contain misinformation and disinformation with the intention to malign the opponent, it cannot help democracy flourish. Unfortunately, this is exactly w...
Hiren Pandit: Awami League will hold a free, fair, beautiful, impartial and credible election. Awami League attained independence and made the country a developing country. Working to establish a prosperous and smart Bangladesh free from exploitation and discrimination, free from hunger and poverty through the implementation of SDGs. In a democ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government has no intention to obstruct the political programmes of BNP-Jamaat, but won't spare them if they repeat any destructive activity. "We will not obstruct them in doing politics and are not doing so as well. But they won't get spared if they set fire to rails again or make any damage to...
Despite the desire for elections among the grassroots-level leaders and activists of the BNP, the party's senior members, led by Tarique Rahman, are opposed to it. They are aware that their history of militancy and terrorism would lead to rejection by the public. Therefore, the top BNP leaders are attempting to unconstitutionally reduce the powe...
A group of suspended Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders brought out a protest rally in Narsingdi town this morning demanding immediate arrest of the district's BNP convener Khairul Kabir Khokon and others accused in the recent murders of two JCD activists. At least three cars were vandalised by the protestors, reports our local correspondent quot...
When any general election comes, the BNP leaders and activists indulge in killing people. BNP high-ups issued special instructions to create panic among people by killing and sabotaging grassroots leaders and activists. In that continuation, BNP is once again creating an environment for violence against the leaders and activists of Awami League ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said no external force will put BNP in power on a merry-go-round, but they would rather use the party against her government. “They think someone, coming from somewhere else, will put them in power riding a merry-go-round. No one will do that. It will use (them), but won't give them power,” ...
Academics and senior journalists have criticized Bangladesh Nationalist Party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s latest statement that they view as “approval and justification” of a Rajshahi party leader publicly making a death threat against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Calling the threat, issued last week, as a...
Dr. Pranab Kumar Pandey The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has a lengthy history of engaging in and abstaining from electoral processes. Throughout the years, the BNP has employed diverse strategies to influence the country's political landscape. One such strategy involves the deliberate choice to boycott elections, which can be viewed as a...
During a rally in Rajshahi on May 19, BNP's district unit convener, Abu Saeed Chand, openly issued a menacing threat to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and leave her lifeless in a graveyard. It became evident the following day, May 20 and May 21, that this threat was part of the party's central plot, as revealed in the speech of BNP Sec...
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