Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Andolan Bangladesh, and Hefajat-e Islam yesterday demanded that the government immediately scrap the “unacceptable and controversial” recommendations of the Women’s Affairs Reform Commission.

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman yesterday said no national election should be held without necessary reforms and the trial of fascists.

National Citizen Party leaders Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah came under intense scrutiny at a key party meeting on Friday over allegations of breaching party discipline, said sources.

BNP does not see the need to launch a movement against the Prof Yunus-led administration, for now, to compel it to hold the next national election in December, said BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan.

Stating that political parties have embedded their own ideologies as fundamental principles in the Constitution of Bangladesh, the National Citizen Party has questioned whether there should be any fundamental principles in the charter at all.

Mahdi Amin, adviser to BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman, speaks to The Daily Star

Police arrested a local Jamaat leader yesterday night for allegedly attacking a BNP leader in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj. .A case has also been filed against 15 Jamaat men in connection with the incident, though police have withheld the names of the accused citing the ongoing investigat

The committee is set to be formally announced tomorrow

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today expressed the hope that very good things await the nation as interim government head Dr Muhammad Yunus will succeed in addressing political and other problems

The National Consensus Commission is set to hold talks with the National Citizen Party (NCP) today as part of its ongoing dialogue with political parties to build consensus on the state reform initiatives undertaken by the interim government.

The acting headteacher of Bhatiyari Haji Tobarak Ali Chowdhury (TAC) High School in Chattogram’s Sitakunda was allegedly forced to resign on Wednesday due to a rift between local leaders of the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.

As per proposals sent to constitution reform commission

The BNP is eyeing a joint movement with Jamaat-e-Islami and like-minded parties to pressure the government to hold the next national election in December.

The event was organised under the banner of "People of Narayanganj," at the Central Shaheed Minar in Chashara

The interim government is delaying elections so that BNP cannot come to power through the people’s vote, claimed the party’s Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu yesterday.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday questioned why reforms are being considered instead of elections, expressing concern that the interim government might be working with a "hidden agenda".

The BNP will hold talks with like-minded political parties to come up with a comprehensive action plan to drum up support for election by December. 

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday said the national election can be held only after basic reforms, the trial for crimes against humanity committed in July, and the establishment of a proper election system.

The accused has been identified as Zayanul Abedin, president of the Dhamsona union unit of Sramik Dal, the BNP's labour wing

The party was formally introduced at an event held at a hotel in Dhaka's Banani today.