report in Prothom Alo, Dec 4, 2023In the Panchagarh-1 seat (covering Sadar, Tetulia, and Atowari), Awami League’s district branch vice-president Naimuzzman Bhuiyan (Mukta) has secured the party’s nomination. However, four other Awami League leaders, including the incumbent member of parliament Mazharul Haque Pradhan and District Awami League General Secretary Anwar Sadat, have submitted nomination papers as independent candidates for this seat. The situation has created confusion and disarray among the leaders and workers of Awami…
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by Nawaz Farhin Antara in Dhaka Tribune, ov 8, 20223Active BNP leaders and activists are deciding on their own how to implement each program of the one-point movement in the absence of guidance from the party leadership. Grassroots activists are out of touch with BNP top-level leaders as most of them are on the run or have switched off their phones in fear of being jailed. Leaders of the opposition party are outwardly confident in…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Nov 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has issued a clarion call to the country’s legal fraternity, urging a grassroots movement to uphold the people’s rights, particularly the right to vote and elect their representatives. “It is the fiduciary duty of the judiciary and the lawyers to protect the Constitution, upon which rests the progress of our nation,” Mr Khan said in a message posted on his X (formerly Twitter)…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 8, 2023After some parties including the main opposition CPN-UML and opposition Rastriya Prajatantra Party, the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) has decided to launch a ‘three-month grassroots’ campaign to reach out to the people. Party leaders believe that the campaign will help revive the party in the upcoming polls as they will know the concerns of the people and act accordingly to convince them to vote for…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 7, 2023The five-day long central committee meeting of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) concluded on Sunday with a renewed commitment to ‘invigorating’ the party by reaching out to the grassroots. The ruling party’s decision to launch a grassroots campaign comes at a time when Maoist leaders and cadres have been accusing the party top brass of focusing only on power, resulting in the party’s decline to…
By Political Editor in The Sunday Times, July 30, 2023 *As UNP appoints committees to revive party at grassroots level; broader alliance planned with like-minded parties and groups **Lanza’s new party on a mission to win support for Wickremesinghe among SLPP and ‘independent’ MPs……. Behind-the-scenes activity, particularly those initiated by President Wickremesinghe, still retains the focus on a presidential poll. Of course, the aim is to hold it next year. One step is a move…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 13, 2023The Rastriya Swatantra Party has been focusing on organisation building after it decided to pull out support for the government. By this, the party aims to strengthen its base at the grassroots level for the next local elections, say party leaders. Kabindra Burlakoti, the party’s joint general secretary, said as many as 30,438 members have been verified with their memberships renewed for the next five years.…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Mar 18, 2023The BNP’s grassroots leaders have suggested the top leadership that the party should not take part in any polls under the incumbent government. They have also recommended finalising the movement strategy to force the government to hold the next general election under a non-party interim government. They said that the BNP should focus more on strengthening its organisational capacity by quelling all internal feuds before…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 17, 2023The second-largest party in the House of Representatives, CPN-UML, has launched a two-month-long campaign called ‘Mission Grassroots’ starting on Friday, to strengthen the party organisation and broaden its ideological base at the local level across the country. On Friday, an orientation event for the leaders who would be working on ‘Mission Grassroots’ will be held in each of the seven provinces. To kickstart the campaign, party…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 15, 2023The Awami League has become its worst enemy because of rampant infighting at its grassroots, said leaders of the ruling party yesterday. Rifts between local leaders and activists are responsible for the party’s poor state, they told AL President Sheikh Hasina and requested her to do something to unite the local leaders and thus make the party more organised, insiders said. Rivalry in the party is the only…