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Tajnuva Jabeen, joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has announced her resignation from the party, expressing strong objections to the manner in which its electoral alliance was formed.
She made the announcement in a Facebook post on Sunday.
Tajnuva said many were assuming her objection stemmed from ideological or gender-related concerns regarding the alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami, but stressed that the real issue was “far more alarming.”
“What is more frightening than ideology is the process through which this has been done. It is being labelled as political strategy or an electoral alliance. I would call it a planned move, carefully staged to reach this point,” she wrote.
Emphasising that trust matters more than ideology, she said the party had recently invited nominations from across the country with much fanfare, issued 125 nominations, but later decided to strike seat-sharing arrangements for only 30 constituencies-effectively barring the rest from contesting the election.
“They dragged the matter to the very last moment so that no one could even contest as an independent candidate. Tomorrow is the last day for submitting nominations,” she writes, adding that although she currently has no intention to run independently, “everything has been thrown into chaos and disowned in the blink of an eye.”
Expressing frustration, Tajnuva also dismissed media reports suggesting she opposed the alliance out of fear of losing her nomination.
“I had clearly written earlier that if negotiations took place in my constituency, I would not contest the election. No matter how tough the opponent was, I was ready to fight. But that opportunity was not given,” she said.
She alleged that while Jamaat-e-Islami was negotiating seat-sharing for 70 constituencies with the Charmonai Pir-led group, the party born out of the mass uprising was being allocated only 30 seats.
Tajnuva had initially received the NCP’s primary nomination for the Dhaka-17 constituency and had been actively campaigning there for several days.
