report in The Daily Star, July 16, 2023Both the ruling Awami League and the BNP have been trying to get the Islami Andolon Bangladesh as an ally, but the BNP has finally made it. The Islamist party yesterday expressed its support for BNP’s demand for resignation of the Awami League government. Addressing a rally at Baitul Mukarram masjid, IAB chief Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said his party would support the peaceful demonstrations of the opposition.…
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report in Prothom Alo, July 14, 2023Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced a 31-point pledges to reform the constitution, the state machinery, and achieve economic emancipation of the country. Party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement at a press conference in the capital’s Gulshan on Thursday. The de facto opposition party came up with the programmes one day after announcing their one-point demand to oust the ruling Awami League government. The…
report in The Daily Star online, July 12, 2023Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud today said the BNP had announced a one-point demand before the 2014 elections too, but that had yielded no results. “Khaleda Zia in 2013-14 made a one-point demand [saying] that the government should leave, the government must be pulled down. But their movement died at the start,” he said while speaking at AL’s peace rally at the South Gate of Baitul…
report in The Daily Star, July 10, 2023 Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP has secret ties with Israel and its intelligence agency. “The meeting between a representative of the Israeli intelligence agency and a senior BNP leader was exposed to the media. BNP is always involved in such anti-state activities,” he said in a statement. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir…
report in Prothom Alo, June 27, 2023 BNP will soon launch their one-point movement to oust the current government, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. Talking to newsmen at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, the BNP leader also said that a suitable and acceptable framework for a polls-time neutral government will come out through discussions with all stakeholders to hold the next election in a fair and credible manner. “We’re basically on a…
report in Prothom Alo, Jun 7, 2023Awami League (AL) leader Amir Hossain Amu has said the floor is open to BNP and all other political parties to hold dialogue within the constitution through the mediation of the United Nations. Amu is a seasoned politician of the ruling party and is currently serving as its advisory council member. He is also the coordinator of the AL-led 14-party alliance. While addressing a rally of the alliance in…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, May 28, 2023The BNP now plans to focus on one point: resignation of the Awami League government. It will drop its current 10-point demand then, party leaders say. After the weeklong anti-government programme concludes today, the BNP will work on launching the one-point movement, they said, adding that the weeklong programme is in fact a preparation for the one-point movement. The US visa policy has encouraged the…
by Anowar Hossain in Prothom Alo, May 19, 2023Awami League wants to ensure victory of its candidates in upcoming elections to five city corporations and simultaneously keep control of the streets in the face of agitation of the opposition parties. AL would continue its counter movement if BNP creates any anti-government agitation. However, the ruling party would focus more on city corporation elections if BNP does not take to the streets in this time. The…
report in Prothom Alo, May 19, 2023BNP will stage marches in all cities, except the capital, on 23 and 28 May. The party’s senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, announced the schedule at a press conference on Thursday at its central office at Naya Paltan. However, the 10-day rallies that began on Wednesday across the districts, including Dhaka city, will continue, protesting the price hikes and demanding the resignation of the government and elections…
report in Dhaka Tribune, May 17, 2023BNP has called upon the country’s people to boycott the upcoming elections to five city corporations under the current government. BNP standing committee at their virtual meeting on Monday made the call to vote to implement the party’s earlier decision of not participating in the five city polls to be conducted by the current Election Commissioner under the Awami League government. “The meeting feels that the City Corporation elections…
report in The Daily Star, May 16, 2023BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday feared that the country will face a severe economic crisis in the days to come due to the dollar crisis. “This is the reality that coal can’t be imported due to the dollar crunch. Not only this, but the traders are also unable to import the necessary goods due to the lack of dollars. The amount of reserves has decreased…