Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) Violence continues to rage across Bangladesh as the country votes during the 13th parliamentary election on Thursday. Nasiruddin Patwari, a candidate for the 11-party alliance and leader of the National Citizens Party (NCP), was reportedly attacked as he was visiting a polling booth in the Dhaka-8 constituency. Bangladesh’s leading Bengali daily Jugantor reported that Patwari was attacked while speaking to reporters at the centre around 12 noon on Thursday. Safely rescued by…
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Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday expressed satisfaction after casting his vote in the national election, stating that he remains fully confident about his party securing victory, according to local media reports.Tarique exercised his franchise at the Gulshan Model High School and College Centre in Dhaka. Speaking to reporters after voting, he said that the people of Bangladesh had been waiting for this moment for over a decade, reported …
London, Feb 11 (IANS) Bangladesh’s national election on Thursday is unlikely to bring any significant change, with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) possibly assuming power, the Jamaat-e-Islami gaining ground, and a few students entering parliament. While power may shift in the South Asian nation, the entrenched bargain — “cheap labour, hollow institutions, money siphoned abroad, dissent managed” — will endure, a report said on Wednesday.“From afar, Bangladesh’s upcoming election …
Dhaka, Feb 11 (IANS) With Bangladesh heading for polls on Thursday, election rules strictly prohibit exploiting religious sentiments for gaining electoral advantage, yet the parties and candidates from across the political spectrum ran paid ads and unpaid social media content portraying the rival camps as “bad Muslims,” local media reported on Wednesday. An analysis of 50 sponsored ads between December 23, 2025, and February 6, 2026 reveals that both Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Ja…
Dhaka, Feb 11 (IANS) Mohammad Harun Al Rashid, a seasoned Bangladeshi diplomat (now exiled), in an exclusive interview with a leading think tank, described Bangladesh’s national election slated for Thursday as one of the “ugliest” in the country’s history. He warned that the interim government’s Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, who has long survived by repackaging the grotesque as virtue, cannot evade accountability.In an interview with Sri Lanka-based think tank Trinco Centre for Strategic Studies…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) In the lead-up to the elections in Bangladesh, discussions have emerged regarding violence, human rights abuses, and the oppression of minority groups. However, women in the nation are also voicing their concerns about their rights in the aftermath of the results being declared. It is the Jamaat-e-Islami, which the women are worried about, and many say that if this party comes to power, they can say goodbye to their freedom.The same women who were at the forefront of the…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The campaign for the February 12 Bangladesh elections is set to end today. The country, post the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, has descended into chaos, and the minority Hindus have borne the brunt of the radical Islamists who have been given a free hand by the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government. Interestingly, the Hindu votes are very crucial in these elections. Both the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have been reaching out to the Hindus. The e…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) When Bangladesh’s electors exercise their franchise on February 12, they will participate in a process considered one of the most crucial in the country’s history where they will choose not only a new government, but also the future of regional safety, security, and mutual relations. Bangladesh is heading into its 13th national parliamentary election at a critical time. The contest is primarily between two major blocs, one led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), an…
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) Bangladesh, despite its laggardness on social, economic and other multiple fronts, had one distinct character for many years — two women leaders remained the key pivot of its political landscape. As the South Asian nation heads towards elections, the first after the bloody and violent uprising of 2024, a strange vacuum occupies its political sphere as both the women stalwarts, rather former Prime Ministers are missing from action — Khaleda Zia is no more and Sheikh Hasi…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Congress party, accusing it of evolving into a “Jamaati Congress” through alliances with communal organisations, potentially endangering national unity and democratic values. Also, while addressing the media at the BJP headquarters here, Trivedi criticised the West Bengal government’s budget for prioritising “Maulvis, Muezzins, and Madrasas” over th…