Report in The Daily Star, Oct 13, 2023The Awami League will make an all-out effort to bring voters to the polling centres to ensure a healthy turnout in the upcoming national polls, as it believes an election with high turnout will be acceptable to the international community. AL sources said the party believes it has 35-40 percent voters in its bank but it has to ensure these voters show up. In addition, it is planning…
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Report in The Daily Star, Oct 13, 2023An IMF delegation yesterday enquired about the steps taken by the ACC to bring back laundered money to Bangladesh. The IMF team held a meeting with the Anti-Corruption Commission officials at the ACC head office in Dhaka. The ACC responded that they had sent letters seeking legal assistance from the countries where the money had been laundered. The meeting also focused on the ACC’s activities and future plans.…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 13, 2023Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal yesterday said that the election would be incomplete if BNP doesn’t participate in the election. “Though different small parties are taking part in the polls, it is undeniable that they are not equal to BNP…. If the party (BNP) doesn’t participate in the election, there’s no doubt that … a sense of incompletion might overshadow the election,” he said in an…
Report in Prothom Alo, 12 Oct 2023The police have filed 11 cases against at least 700 members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami in Jashore within just five days. They have already arrested a total of 77 BNP and Jamaat men in connection with the cases. Adding to the concern, there are a significant number of anonymous individuals among the accused. The police claimed to have filed the cases on specific charges,…
Report in Prothom Alo, 11 Oct 2023 at 22: 24BNP central publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie has alleged in the court that he has been beaten up in the police station after being arrested from his house. He made the allegation at the chief metropolitan magistrate court of Dhaka on Wednesday during hearing on a remand petition in a case filed over a sabotage at the Dhanmondi police station. Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie said…
Report in Prothom Alo, 12 Oct 2023Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP leaders are making poisonous statements over environment-friendly Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. “Bangabandhu’s daughter, prime minister Sheikh Hasina, is inaugurating mega projects one after another that makes the BNP leaders irritated,” he said in a statement. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said that is why BNP leaders are threatening to shut down the Rooppur nuclear power plant.…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 12, 2023Pro-BNP lawyers yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be held responsible and be made accused if unfortunate anything happen to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for not allowing her to go abroad for treatment. “This government does not understand democracy, rule of law and human rights, and does not want the people’s relief and welfare other than its party men’s development…The prime minister, as the head of a…
report in Prothom Alo, Oct 10, 2023During separate talks with the visiting US pre-election assessment team, the two major political parties Awami League and BNP displayed their conflicting and uncompromising stands. Neither of the parties is willing to make any sort of adjustment or compromise in their respective positions. The leaders of opposition BNP explained the reasoning behind their one-point demand for the resignation of the Awami League government and elections under a non-partisan government.…
By Pranab Baul & Gazi Firoz in Prothomalo, 09 Oct 2023, 07: 42As the election draws closer, conflict intensifies within Chattogram North district Awami League over various constituencies. The main cause of conflict is over party nomination. This conflict is clearly visible in four out of the seven seats in the north. There is likely to be a tussle with allies in Hathazari and Fatikchhari. Only in one seat there is no conflict. Similarly, alongside…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 09, 2023The pre-election assessment delegation from the US has wanted to know what steps the government had taken to hold free and fair elections. The mission neither mentioned participatory elections nor the polls-time government, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters after meeting the six-member delegation at his office yesterday. The delegates arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a six-day visit. Today, the mission is scheduled to meet representatives…