Dhaka, March 25 (IANS) Bangladesh’s radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami has alleged that their alliance candidates suffered narrow defeats in the February 12 national elections due to electoral irregularities, including delayed results, missing polling agent signatures, forged endorsements, and pencil-marked tallies in some cases. Jamaat stated that it is pursuing these alleged electoral irregularities through formal legal channels but refraining from mobilising large-scale field actions at t…
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Ankara, March 11 (IANS) With its first session scheduled for March 12, Bangladesh’s newly-elected parliament will confront two competing mandates – one rooted in the existing constitutional framework and the other guided by the political commitments of the July Charter. Experts warn that such a dual arrangement may trigger institutional friction as the new parliament convenes, a report has highlighted. Bangladesh faces an unfamiliar constitutional moment defined by competing visions of politic…
Dhaka, Feb 28 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Awami League has begun reasserting its political presence in the country following the recent parliamentary elections, with over a dozen party offices reopened in the past two weeks, local media reports have cited. In several locations, however, party supporters gathered outside the offices and raised slogans instead of formally unlocking the premises, reflecting a visible effort to regain momentum on the ground.Citing multiple party sources, Bangladesh’s le…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) A resurgent Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is asserting itself politically, as is evident from its anted-up position on immediate constitutional reforms, directing its ire at the newly-formed government led by BNP’s Tarique Rahman.In June last year, the registration of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party was restored more than a decade after it was banned by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.Its re-emergence follows a turbulent past where the part…
New Delhi/Dhaka, Feb 18 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Wednesday congratulated Khalilur Rahman on being appointed as the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh under the new Tarique Rahman-led government.Khalilur Rahman was sworn in as the Foreign Minister on Tuesday at the South Plaza of the Parliament complex, along with 49 other Cabinet members of the new BNP-led government.The EAM expressed hope to advance the India-Bangladesh ties. In a post on X, EAM Jaishankar said, “Cong…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) A high-pitched row on Tuesday over a proposed Constitutional Reform Council reflected how even before Bangladesh’s newly elected cabinet could assume office, it stood facing legal challenges on changes adopted by the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, according to Bangladeshi media reports.While members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) took oath as parliamentarians on Tuesday, they did not swear in as members of a proposed Constitution Reform Council, “as th…
Washington, Feb 16 (IANS) Citing the recent election result in Bangladesh, a report has highlighted how Gen-Z protests, that have proliferated in various regions, failed to turn demonstrations into political success at the ballot box, or in policymaking. Writing for the American think tank Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Joshua Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia, noted the Bangladesh protests that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024 also were o…
Dhaka, Feb 12 (IANS) As Bangladesh votes in its 13th National Parliament election, two voter blocs are increasingly being viewed as decisive forces in determining the political outcome — Generation Z and women, according to a media report. Combined, these groups form a numerical majority of the electorate and are emerging as an independent voting force capable of reshaping conventional party calculations and electoral strategies.With over 40 million voters between the ages of 18 and 29 and more…
Dhaka, Feb 9 (IANS) As Bangladesh readies to hold national election on February 12, minorities in the South Asian nation feel the insecurity more profoundly, a report has highlighted. Quoting Bruce Allen of the Forgotten Missionaries International (FMI), a report in Mission Network News stated: “The social climate in Bangladesh has been one of uncertainty. FMI partners tell Allen that under the current caretaker government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, there’s an indifference to …
Dhaka, Feb 8 (IANS) As Bangladesh heads into a high-stakes national election, women candidates are confronting an intensifying wave of cyber harassment, coordinated online abuse and targeted misinformation, according to local media reports.Women account for just around four per cent of candidates in the upcoming national polls, exposing entrenched gender barriers in a political landscape where women form half the population but barely figure on the ballot.Several women candidates across constitu…