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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To avoid confrontation, both AL and BNP must come to a consensus.

A consensus among political parties is essential for holding a good election.

The High Court today granted six-month bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a case filed over the December 7 clashes between police and BNP men in the capital's Nayapaltan area.

Activists and leaders of the ruling Awami League and its associate bodies yesterday took position in different places of the city “to prevent any untoward incident” centring the BNP’s procession.

The year 2022 marked a major turnaround for the BNP as the party seemed to have overcome the organisational weaknesses and political inertia that had been plaguing it since the disappointing results of the 2018 national polls.

Voting in Rangpur City Corporation elections began this morning using electronic voting machines (EVMs).