Desk Report: A party that has been a champion in corruption for 5 consecutive years has now become a champion in looting stones and sand before coming to power, said Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami‘s Assistant Secretary General Rafiqul Islam Khan. He said that the party has become the owner of the country after August 5. Rafiqul Islam Khan said these things while speaking as the chief guest at the Dhaka-6 all-level Ulama-Mashaykh gathering organized by Dhaka Metropolitan South Jamaat at Zahir Raihan Cultural Center in Gendaria, the capital, on Saturday (September 27).…
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Media that brokers fascism has no right to survive: Rizvi
Desk Report: BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that freedom of the media is essential in a democratic state. But for the past 16-17 years, fascist rule has been established in the country and voices of dissent have been suppressed. Those media outlets that have brokered fascism and justified disappearances and murders have no right to survive. He said these things as the chief guest at the multimedia inauguration ceremony of Dainik Barta at the National Press Club in the capital today, Saturday. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said,…
Read MoreDelaying elections will increase crisis: Amir Khusro
Desk Report: BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has urged to restore democracy through early elections to overcome the current crisis in the country. He said that delaying the elections will increase the crisis. He said this at a seminar at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) auditorium in the capital’s Eskaton on Saturday. The seminar titled ‘Reforms and Elections: National Unity in Perspective’ was organized by Democracy Dias Bangladesh. Amir Khasru said, ‘For the last 15-16 years, an unrepresentative government has been running the…
Read MoreNCP reinstates Mahin Sarkar in party a month and a half after expulsion
Desk Report: The National Citizens Party (NCP) had temporarily expelled Mahin Sarkar for running for the post of General Secretary (GS) from an independent panel in the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) elections ‘without taking permission’ from the party’s top leaders. The NCP has reinstated the expelled joint member secretary to the party after a month and a half. The NCP released a letter on Friday night stating that Mahin Sarkar’s expulsion order has been revoked and he has been reinstated in his previous post. The letter signed by…
Read MoreEven if we can’t get a bullet train for development, we will launch an express train in 5 years: Jamaat Amir
Desk Report: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman said, ‘We want to change this rotten Bangladesh. We believe that we cannot launch a bullet train of development in five years, but we can launch an express train.’ He said this at the annual council session of the Forum of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (FDEB) at the Institute of Diploma Engineers (IDEB) auditorium in Kakrail in the capital on Saturday. The Jamaat Ameer said, ‘Our education system is neither moral nor material. It is not even close to any standard. In this education…
Read MoreYou will see more petty views of those whose leaders are in this situation—in what context did Sarjis say this?
Desk Report: You will see more petty views of those whose leaders are in this situation—in what context did Sarjis say this? Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in a student-public uprising, called up and thanked Jubo League activist Mizan, who threw eggs at National Citizens Party (NCP) member secretary Akhtar Hossain at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, USA. And NCP’s northern chief organizer Sarjis Alam is angry about this. In a post on social media Facebook this Friday morning, he expressed his anger and said,…
Read MoreAkhtar files lawsuit in US over Kennedy Airport incident
Desk Report: National Citizens Party (NCP) member secretary Akhtar Hossain has filed a case against Awami League workers in connection with the attack and egg-throwing incident in New York. Akhtar Hossain filed the case at the Port Authority Police Department police station next to John F. Kennedy Airport at 1 am on Wednesday (11 am Bangladesh time on Thursday) local time in New York. Akhtar gave this information in a video message on the NCP’s official Facebook page today (September 25). In the video message, Akhtar Hossain said, “After the…
Read MoreEC doesn’t have the courage to give NCP a slap due to pressure: Sarjis
Desk Report: The Election Commission is not able to dare to give the Shapla symbol to the NCP due to any pressure despite the absence of legal obstacles, said Sarjis Alam, the chief organizer of the Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) in the northern region. He made this comment while talking to reporters after the coordination meeting of the NCP’s district and upazila committees in Moulvibazar on Thursday afternoon. Sarjis Alam said that the fascist Awami League and Jatiya Party (JP) will not be able to participate in any future elections…
Read MorePR means ‘permanent restlessness’: Salahuddin
Desk Report: BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed has termed PR as ‘permanent restlessness’. He said that if elections are held under PR (Proportional Representation) system, the country’s political stability will be disrupted. After the introduction of PR in different countries of the world, it has been seen that it has taken a long time to form a government. In some places, the government was formed after a year or a year and a half. Again, after the formation of the government, it was not sustainable. The government collapsed within…
Read MoreAn Islamist party in the country is working to appease the AL: Rizvi
Desk Report: BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that an Islamist party in the country is working to satisfy the Awami League. He made this comment at a press conference at the party’s central office in Nayapaltan in the capital on Thursday (September 25). Rizvi said, “I have always felt that an Islamist political party in our country is working to satisfy the Awami League. They got the opportunity to do politics in this country from Shaheed Ziaur Rahman. They were a banned party. Shaheed Zia…
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