The first phase of the country’s fourth Upazila Parishad election begins today (Wednesday) in 97 upazilas. Election will be held to another upazila on February 24 in the same phase.A festive mood is prevailing in almost all polling areas with report of no major untoward incident from anywhere till Tuesday evening. The voting will start at 8:00am and continue till 4:00pm without any break. Today has been declared as a public holiday by the government in the polling areas.The Election...
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Alongside with the leaders of the Dhaka city unit, BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia is reportedly not happy with several senior leaders of her party, as they were inactive in the street movement ahead of the January-5 elections. She is now planning to bring about a major change in the party’s different bodies, including the party’s apex body- standing committee through national council. The BNP is likely to hold its sixth national council in March or April. “The holding of...
The Dhaka city unit of BNP is likely to be split into two organisational units — Dhaka city (North) and Dhaka City (South) – soon in a bid to strengthen the party to begin a fresh movement to force the government to hold mid-term polls within short time. Alongside with the probable split, new faces may come in the committees excluding incumbent convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka and member secretary Abdus Salam, as the BNP high command is not happy with...
The difference between the BNP and the Jamaat has sharpened centering the fielding of candidates in the ensuing upazila elections, as candidates representing both the parties are in the race in the different places. This is seen as a clear defiance of the directive of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. She had asked all concerned to field single candidate on behalf of the BNP-led 19-party alliance to ensure victory. But as there are rival candidates within the party and also...
BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami are maintaining distance with each other, as BNP is facing pressure from the international community to severe relations with Jamaat. Jamaat itself is also not happy with BNP for its role during anti-government movement and on question of trial of its leaders in connection with war crimes. The BNP-led 18-party alliance is likely to be reorganised within a few months dropping Jamaat and other Islamic parties of the alliance, insiders hinted. The BNP is also contemplating to...
Although the first phase of the elections to 97 Upazila Parishads are going to be held within three days, the Awami League and the BNP have failed to convince their rebel candidates in many of the upazilas. Since the date of the filing of the nomination papers, BNP was trying to get the rebel candidates by the party-backed candidates. But it failed to manage the dissidents. The party has finally taken strict stand against them for defying party decision. The...
The ruling party Awami League is reportedly trying to split the BNP-led alliance. An adviser of the Prime Minister held a meeting with leaders of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ), a partner of the BNP-led 19-party alliance, in the city on Sunday. The adviser already placed different offers to the party, even a post of state minister, sources claimed. When asked, IOJ chairman Maulana Abdul Latif Nejami denied the report of any meeting. He, however, said that the present government is...
The BNP-led 19-party alliance is now giving top priority to the upazila election to bag majority chairman and vice chairman post, in order to launch an all-out movement for a fresh national election under a non-party poll-time government system. Talking to The New Nation, the alliance leaders said, they believe that the anti-government movement would be intensified if the alliance-baked candidates repeat their predecessors’ performance in the city corporations and municipalities elections last year. Sources said that the BNP standing...
The BNP-led 19-party alliance will field single candidate in the upcoming upazila elections to ensure victory of their candidates. BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has already asked her party leaders to ensure so that single candidate contests in each post of Upazila chairman and vice-chairman. The alliance has taken the polls seriously considering that if the alliance-backed candidates win the polls in majority upazilas, it will be a major boost to gear up the anti-government movement in the coming days....
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and her party-led 18-party alliance, now planning to launch fresh movement to enforce a mid-term election this year. Khaleda Zia has plan to visit different district headquarters in the coming months to gear up the movement demanding a mid-term election under a poll-time non-party government, sources said. The 18-party alliance is scheduled to hold countrywide rallies and processions on January 20 to thank people for boycotting the January 5 polls while it will also stage...
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