Party-activists

The National Citizen Party’s ‘July March’ program, announced to mark the second anniversary of the July Mass Uprising, has gone beyond political campaigning and has become the center of renewed political tension following a series of attacks, clashes, and counter cases. Incidents surrounding the program in several districts, including Habiganj and Sylhet, have placed the NCP and the BNP in direct confrontation. While both sides blame each other, the NCP claims the incidents are part of a p...

Although political tensions have escalated once again in the country, neither the government nor the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, wants the situation to turn into conflict. The party has therefore issued clear instructions to its leaders and activists from the central level to the grassroots not to respond to any provocation and to maintain patience and restraint. At the same time, government policymakers are examining whether recent developments are isolated incidents or p...