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No AL names for new poll panel posts
Dhaka, Jan 29: The Awami League parliamentary party, on Sunday, said the ruling party would not propose any names for Election Commission posts.
Rallies banned today: BNP demo Monday
Dhaka, Jan 28: In a sudden move, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Saturday evening imposed a ban on any kind of rally and procession in the capital and a few district towns for Sunday prompting the main opposition BNP to reschedule its much-hyped mass procession to Monday from Sunday while the ruling party postponed its rally.
Govt cooks up stories, plans BKSAL: BNP
DHAKA, Jan 21: BNP leaders on Saturday said unpleasant incidents are taking place in the country and alleged the ruling party is in a plan to go back to its previous one- party BKSAL rule.
They also accused the government of cooking up stories.
‘Poll without CG to be a mistake’
DHAKA, JAN 8: BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia on Sunday warned that governments attempt to hold next general elections under it instead of the caretaker government would be a grave mistake.
Addressing different meetings on way to Chittagong during four-party alliance’s road march programme, the former prime minister urged the people to resist any such attempt of the government and said that the popularity of the ruling party had dipped so low that it would not be able to return to power even after 41 years.
Landslide victory for rebel BNP candidate in Comilla City polls
COMILLA JAN 5: Rebel BNP candidate Monirul Hoque Sakku won the first ever mayoral election of the Comilla City Corporation defeating his nearest contender ruling party backed candidate Afzal Khan.
Dream projects put on hold for fund crunch
DHAKA, Dec 27: Acute funds crunch has put on hold mega infrastructure projects pledged by the Grand Alliance government. The ruling party had pledged to implement such projects, to help boost national economy. In its 2008 election manifesto, the party stated that it would take up at least seven mega projects,
BNP countrywide demo on Monday
DHAKA: BNP has announced demonstration in divisional cities, including capital and district headquarters on Monday in protest against the government’s ‘repression and police attack’ on opposition which left two people killed today (Sunday).
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the program at a press briefing at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office at 8-05 pm on Sunday.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam announced that BNP’s Victory Day rally scheduled for Sunday in the capital will be turned into a protest procession tomorrow. The protest procession will be taken out from the party’s central office at Nayapaltan at 3-30 pm.
Govt trying to tame DCC protests: BNP
Dhaka, Dec 9 (bdnews24.com) — The government has started ‘suppressing the opposition’ to try to quell protests against split of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), a BNP leader has alleged.
“The government has chosen the dirty path to annihilate the opposition. It’s obstructing the opposition’s democratic right to protest through meetings and rallies,” joint secretary-general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told a press meet on Friday.
“We strongly condemn this approach of the government,” he said at the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters.
He alleged that police and ruling party activists on Thursday obstructed BNP’s programmes in the city’s Kafrul and Mohammadpur area called to protest the bifurcation of DCC.
DCC administrators
The sudden decision of the ruling party to split the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has made the people astonished. The government has other many things to do right away in order to implement their general election manifesto. However, a lot of precedence in the big cities in the world like London and New York even where more than one mayors are prevalent.
Ershad to march ‘towards Tipaimukh’
Gazipur, Dec 6 (bdnews24.com) – Jatiya Party chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad has announced he will march from Dhaka towards Tipaimukh on Dec 10 protesting the construction of a dam by India there.
“The Indian prime minister had assured that India would not do anything that would harm the interests of Bangladesh,” Ershad said at a rally organised by Zila Jatiya Party in Gazipur’s Chandona-Chourasta area on Tuesday afternoon.
“But now India is going to construct Tipaimukh hydroelectric project on Barak river along the Manipur-Mizoram border,” he added.
He said the people of Bangladesh would stand against the Indian government’s move.
BNP protest rally today
DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage a rally on Monday protesting the attack on Dhaka City Corporation’s (DCC) outgoing mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
The rally will also demand the release of approximately 100 BNP leaders and activists who were detained in different parts of the capital during yesterday’s hartal.
BNP’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme during a post-hartal press briefing at the party’s Naya Paltan central office on Sunday. He warned that the BNP will undertake non-stop agitation programmes to protest the government’s decision to split DCC into two parts.
Narsingdi Mayor gunned down
NARSINGDI, NOV 1: Mayor of Narsingdi Municipality and local Awami League leader Lokman Hossain was killed in a gun attack on Tuesday night. He was 40.
The gunmen sprayed at least five bullets on the chest, belly and left hand at the ruling party’s office in the district town, Lokman Hossain was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
He was pronounced dead by Dr Nazmul Hakim Shahin, Dr Haridas Pratap and Dr Feroze Ali, who were performing operation at the operation theatre, at 11:00pm.
Ivy sweeps NCC poll
NARAYANGANJ, OCT 30: Dr Selina Hayat Ivy, a maverick Awami League candidate is on her way to resounding victory in the first mayoral polls held on Sunday for the newly created Narayanganj city Corporation (NCC), to become its first Mayor, defeating her major rival – ruling party endorsed candidate Shamim Osman with a huge margin.
I’ve been thrown into the water: Shamim
Narayanganj, Oct 30: The ruling party-backed Narayan-ganj mayor aspirant has alleged that a faction of his own party is rigging the polls to bring his downfall.
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