Jatiya Party leaders loyal to Raushan Ershad have expressed concern over GM Quader’s indecision over taking part in the January 7 national election.

The BNP and its allies are enforcing a 48-hour-long nationwide blockade starting this morning. With this fresh blockade, it is the party’s sixth round of blockades since October 28.

Rab arrested BNP chairperson advisers Habibur Rahman Habib and Ataur Rahman Dhali in the capital yesterday.

Police foiled a procession of Jamaat-e-Islami and detained seven activists from Fatullah stadium area of Narayanganj Sadar

Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Ainjibi Forum (BJAF), a body of pro-BNP lawyers, today demanded the removal of trial jurisdictions of the courts concerned that sentenced political opponents, who have died or become victims of enforced disappearance, in false cases, and to rescind their judgments

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Another BNP chairperson's advisor has been arrested from Dhaka's Basila area this afternoon

Awami League Joint General Secretary Hasan Mahmud yesterday said BNP’s call for boycotting election is fading as a joyous and festive mood is prevailing in the country centring the general polls.

The BNP yesterday called for a fresh 48-hour countrywide blockade starting tomorrow morning.

Jatiya Party is selling nomination forms and preparing for the polls even though it claims it has not decided to join the election.

As it seems so far, everyone in the country is seeking Awami League tickets to contest the national polls slated for January 7.

With a little over a month and a half to go until election day, 112 leaders and activists of the BNP and its front organisations were sentenced in Dhaka and Rangpur yesterday in cases filed over political violence.

Mehedi Hasan was in Kuwait when Jatrabari police filed a case on July 30 over political violence in the area the day before.  Police named 99 people, mostly BNP leaders and activists, in the case, and Mehedi was not among them.

The Election Commission will consider  rescheduling the upcoming national polls if major opposition BNP decides to join it following political consensus.

BNP today called a 48-hour countrywide blockade from Wednesday morning

At least 20 BNP activists were wounded, 16 of them with shotgun pellets, in Noakhali’s Senbagh after a procession was attacked on the first day of the 48-hour nationwide hartal yesterday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami, challenging a 2013 High Court verdict that declared illegal the party’s registration with the Election Commission.

Violations of the electoral code of conduct ran rampant as MP aspirants and their supporters flocked to the Awami League’s central office on Bangabandhu Avenue yesterday.

Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad yesterday urged President Mohammed Shahabuddin to hold dialogues with political parties to make the election more participatory and festive.

The Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday said they arrested six activists of BNP and its affiliated bodies for their alleged involvement in the attack on police and setting fire to vehicles on October 28.