BNP names 237 candidates for upcoming national election

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday voiced concern about the growing public doubt over the national election being held as scheduled, and said this “uncertainty could make the country’s democratic transition more difficult”.

National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam yesterday came down heavily on BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, accusing the parties of obstructing state reform initiatives and plotting to delay the national polls.

The exact date of the Ijtema would be finalised later

The delay in selecting candidates has visibly slowed the BNP's campaign and stirred resentment among nomination seekers

Despite uncertainty over how effective the Election Commission’s costly initiative to bring expatriate Bangladeshis into the voting process will be, Jamaat-e-Islami has been actively working to woo this voter base.

The meeting will begin at 3:00pm at Nirbachan Bhaban in Agargaon

The interim government has stepped up preparations for the upcoming national polls, with the Election Commission planning to announce the schedule by the first week of December.

The BNP is considering to have multiple candidates selected in each constituency for the upcoming polls as part of the party’s strategy.

No obstruction should be tolerated

BNP unfazed by Jamaat’s efforts to form alliance with Islamist parties, he says

Around 100 remained "problematic" due to internal rivalries and multiple nomination seekers

The BNP yesterday asked the interim government to assume the role of a non-partisan caretaker administration to ensure that the upcoming national election is neutral and acceptable to all.

Says newly appointed Senior Secretary of Public Administration Ehsanul Hoque

Nearly half of the NCP’s central leaders favour forging an alliance with the BNP ahead of the 13th national election in February.

Races to finalise one candidate per seat by month-end as delay fuels frustration

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, in his first interview in nearly two decades, said he would return to the country soon to contest the upcoming election.

Women’s indecision signals both caution and opportunity.

A pervasive sense of mistrust, fuelled more by political calculation than by reality, has paralysed the charter’s progress.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said political parties have no doubt anymore that the next national election will be held in February 2026.