Bangladesh

Electioneering by contesting candidates in the 13th National Parliament Election and Referendum, scheduled for 12 February, will conclude at 7:30am on Tuesday, exactly 48 hours before voting begins. The campaign, which started on 22 January, will end in line with electoral rules requiring all political parties and candidates to cease campaign activities two days prior to polling. Election Commission (EC) ...

Members of the army and other law enforcement agencies are being deployed across the country from today ahead of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad Election and Referendum scheduled for 12 February. The deployment will continue for seven days – four days before polling, on election day, and three days after – until 14 February. Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud said that ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said that while the Army must remain alert of political affairs, BNP will not use the force for political purposes after getting elected. “Army members should always remain aware of politics, but must not be absorbed into it. Everyone must stay alert so that professionalism is not lost under the cover ...

The Election Commission (EC) has halted its decision to provide election observer cards to an election watchdog for deploying 10,000 individual poll reviewers on 12 February. The EC decision has been taken after a media report found that in reality, PASHA is a one-person organisation, and is headquartered at a single room of the sole executive’s residence at a village ...

Expressing satisfaction over the steps taken so far as part of election-centric preparations, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Saturday said the next one week would be very crucial as the twin elections – national election and referendum – are scheduled to take place on 12 February. “We are satisfied. We are very happy,” Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam ...

Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud on Saturday said there is no possibility of any form of “engineering” in the upcoming election, as the Election Commission, administration, and law enforcement agencies are working in close coordination to ensure a free, fair, and acceptable vote. Speaking to journalists after a coordination meeting with members of a law enforcement–led cell at the Circuit ...

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said that if the party comes to power, priority will be given to implementing the Teesta mega project. He made the pledge while addressing an election rally at the Nilphamari municipality ground this afternoon. Tarique said that initiatives will be taken to develop Nilphamari as an industrial zone through the establishment of factories. In ...

Nearly 35% of the 2,026 candidates contesting the 13th National Parliamentary Election, or 707 individuals, have no publicly available income tax records, according to data from civil society organisation Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (SHUJAN). The findings were presented on Saturday at a press conference held by SHUJAN at the Jatiya Press Club, highlighting data on candidates contesting the election. Under Bangladesh’s ...

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said the upcoming national election is not merely about electing public representatives but about restoring people’s rights and rebuilding Bangladesh. “The February-12 election would be an election to rebuild the country as people had been deprived not only of political rights and freedom of expression but had also fallen behind economically over the past ...

BNP Central Election Steering Committee Spokesperson Mahdi Amin on Saturday alleged that a political party is systematically preparing for ‘election engineering’ to influence the national election and its results. “Some recent incidents indicate a well-planned attempt to manipulate the voting process. We are also receiving reports from various places that a large number of burqas and niqabs have been prepared ...