Dhaka city unit BNP (north) organised the programme from Abdullahpur to Airport-Jamuna Future Park-Badda-Rampura to Malibagh Rail gate. At the same time, the Dhaka city unit BNP (south) formed the human chain from Malibagh rail gate to Jatrabari via Mouchak-Shantinagar-Kakrail-Nayapaltan-Fakirapul-Arambagh-Motijheel's Shapla Chattar-Ittefaq-Tikatuli

The BNP’s current risk-averse behaviour is not conducive to running a successful campaign

Restoring trust in the electoral process remains the biggest challenge

Since its formation a year ago, the new Election Commission has largely failed to gain the opposition parties’ trust, said political analysts

Opposition parties must be allowed to hold peaceful political activities.

The foreign diplomats appear to have become more active with the 12th parliamentary election less than a year away.

Both the ruling Awami League and the opposition BNP are out to get one religion-based party as an electoral ally, a gain which may help boost the vote bank ahead of the next general polls.

We deserve free and inclusive polls.

The nomination of a president is not to be taken lightly.

Announcing counter-programmes on the same day as the BNP, and often at a venue close to the BNP’s, raises the possibility of tension at best and outright violence at worst.

The recent by-polls represent the state of democracy in our country fairly accurately.

Election Commission’s capacity to hold free and fair elections questioned.

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Can a political party – regardless of whether they are in power or in opposition – use public property to attend a party rally?

Why should two political parties of the same nation receive polar opposite treatments?

The BNP wants to make a final push to realise its demand for holding the next general election under a neutral caretaker administration only after the top brass finds the party’s Dhaka city units fully prepared for an all-out movement.

It is imperative to bring voters to conversations pertaining to the 2023 general elections.

As we approach another general election, the utmost thing of worry is that such appeasement will only intensify.

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