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...
While the entire country remained busy making preparations to face Cyclone Mocha, BNP never thought about saving the lives and properties of ordinary people. Rather, even in the face of such great disaster, they are plotting sabotages under the pretext of political programs. Since May 12, the government and the public have stepped in to protect ...
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said historically, BNP holds a sordid record of refraining from standing beside people especially during mighty disasters that swept across the county. “It can be safely said the party is more focused on ballot stuffing and capturing state power than on public safety,” ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called the BNP-Jamaat vote thieves, saying the Bangladesh people will vote for Awami League (AL) in the next elections as she was accorded a civic reception by expatriate Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom (UK). "They (BNP-Jamaat) will destroy Bangladesh. So, make sure that the BNP-Jamaat clique couldn't come to...
Abdullah Al Noman Shamim: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is considered to be a right-wing conservative party that has been in power in Bangladesh on several occasions, with its most recent stint being from 2001 to 2006. Since its inception, the party has produced a different direction that is not in line with the main ideology of the strugg...
Denouncing opposition BNP and Jamaat as "arsonists", Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call upon countrymen to prevent them from coming to power again. BNP-Jamaat nexus drove Bangladesh to the verge of destruction during their regime, she said yesterday while speaking at a civic reception accorded to her at Ritz Carlton hotel in W...
Shams Rahman: It is true that in the past the BNP was in government for several terms. Sometimes by way of an election after seizing power through military coups, sometimes by direct or indirect support of Jamaat-e-Islam. Since 2013 the party has been frantically trying to return to state power. However, so far, the approach it employed has alw...
Syed Badrul Ahsan: The steps taken by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in recent weeks toward initiating a reform of the state of Bangladesh certainly make good reading. That the party has come forth with the program, encapsulated in as many as 27 points and defined as the Structural Reform of the State, is encouraging given that for the first ...
Dr. Rashid Askari: What BNP has done in the name of politics over the last decade can be called PBS—an acronym for Political Bankruptcy Syndrome. To illustrate my point, let me begin with a very recent event. At the end of a joint meeting of Bangladesh Nationalist Party held on February 2, 2023 at their central office in the capital, the ...
Three generations of human rights violation victims – under the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami governments – brought out a rally in Dhaka today to highlight the ordeals faced by the families. The focus of the rally was to provide a wholesome perspective on phases of human rights violations in Bangladesh to address ...
Dr Rashid Aksari: Rumour has it that Bengalis believe in rumour. If a Bengali is told that his ears have been taken away by a kite, he will start running after the flying kite without checking whether his ears are in place. Finally, he goes all shy as he sees that it is a downright rumour. There is not a scintilla of truth in it. The organs on ...
Dr. Rashid Askari: One of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) top brass and its standing committee members--Babu Gayeshwar Chandra Roy recently passed a comment in public that has stirred up a real hornet’s nest. While addressing a gathering of reporters in the capital, he opined that Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan by cha...
The article was originally published in the Washington Times on 20th January 2023 ------------- Shah Ali Farhad: Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), spent months preparing for weekend protests in December in the capital, Dhaka. BNP Standing Committee member Dr. Khondker Mosharraf Hossai...
Dr. Rashid Askari: The US envoy to Bangladesh Peter D. Haas’ clandestine visit to a BNP leader’s house, its leak to the press, his facing angry unwanted protesters airing grievances and beating a hasty retreat have had a knock-on effect on the political environment of the country. The day was December 14, 2022—the Martyr...
Barrister Shah Ali Farhad: On December 14, 2022 an “analysis” on Bangladesh’s recent economic and political developments titled ‘Bangladeshis have had enough…’ was published in Foreign Policy. Apart from the glaring absence of any comments from the government despite a number of allegations raised against it...
After the 10 December (2022) direct action programme proved largely abortive, BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) has lost face to such an extent that they are hardly likely to go for similar programmes soon. Now, they are trying to save their face otherwise by placing before the nation a whole slew of reforms aimed at, as BNP puts it, repairing ...
Barrister Shah Ali Farhad: Like many developing countries across the world, Bangladesh has been hit hard by the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Compared to many of its neighbours, however, the South Asian nation was able to handle the first, and still ongoing, public health crisis quite well. So far, the country has fully vaccinated ...
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