Bangladesh students who ranked PM Hasin from the party to fight elections | News about politics

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Bangladesh students who led last year’s mass protest to operate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin launched a political party before the parliamentary elections expected to be held in the next year.

Addressing the rally on Manik Mia Avenue, along with the Parliament building in the capital on Friday, the leaders of the new national civic party (NCP) insisted that they would continue the national unity policy over division, transparency and good corruption management and independent external policy for the construction of “another Republic”. “

Lima Actor, the sister of Ismail Hossain Rabby-Koji was among those who killed security forces during the uprising in July against Hasine-found that 27-year-old Nahid Islam would be a new party with a new party.

The Islam-26-year-old July poster, which overthrew Hasin, and later acting as head of the Ministry of Information and broadcasting Bangladesh, will lead a new party. Islam resigned from the temporary government on Tuesday, led by Nobel Laureate Mira Muhammad Yunus, to take over the leadership of a new party, which will initially have a central committee of about 150 members.

Yunus, who led the temporary government from Hasin’s exit in August, said the general election would be held until December or the beginning of 2026.

Shafiquel Islam, a third -year nursing student at the Gazi Sister -Co -Coastal Faculty of Sisters, in the Coastal District of Patuakhali, who was at a driving event on Friday: “We did not have the freedom to express according to the previous regime. We do not want violence in educational institutions on behalf of politics. Corruption remains the main obstacle to our progress.

On Wednesday, former students against discrimination (USA), a student movement that overthrew Hasina’s Government of Awami League, launched a new student organization, Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, or Democratic Student Council (DSC), at a press conference in which brief sadness between two sad fractions.

According to DSC leaders, it is sadly formed to organize the movement in July with the participation of students related to the various wings of students of the political party who have since returned to their organizations. In addition, many of his leaders have now joined the new political party.

“We have formed this new organization to support the Spirit of the Jury Movement among students,” said DSC Cathers Abu Baker Mazdar on the launch of the group.

He stressed that the organization would remain independent and will not join any political party, including NCP.

However, analysts see this as an Allied organization of a new party, sharing the same spirit as the movement in July.

A new chapter in Bangladesh’s policy

Political analysts said NCP led by young people wants to enter Bangladesh political landscapewhich have been dominated by two family dynasty under the guidance of women for decades. The Hasina family comes from the leader of the founder of the land, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was also the founder of the Awami League party. Then there is the family of former Prime Minister Khaled Zia. The late husband Zia, former military ruler Ziaur Rahman, founded the main opposition nationalist party of Bangladesh (BNP).

Hasina, Rahman’s 76-year-old daughter, sought exile in neighboring India when a movement guided by students forced her to power. Her 15-year-old government was marked by the main economic gain for the country and wide allegations of corruption, violation of rights and authoritarianism.

The BNP, who hopes to dominate the next parliamentary elections, is headed by a sick zia, 79, and her son Tarique Rahman. Zia flew to London last month, where her son lives in exile, to treat liver and heart complications.

In addition to two major political groups, Islamist organizations such as Bangladesh Jamaat-E-Islam (BJI) and leftist groups, such as the Bangladesh Communist Party, have held their role as an influential group of pressure in Bangladesh policy.

The leaders of the newly formed party argued that the Bangladesh policy has long been defined by what they consider “divisions of guilt” – secularism and Islamic law or cite people according to Pakistan or their own homeland during the 1971 release movement.

These divisions, they claimed, pushed questions to live, health and education on margins. Jamaat, who often associated with BNP politically, opposed the independence of Bangladesh of Pakistan.

“In tomorrow’s Bangladesh, we do not want these divisions to persevere. We want to ensure the same rights for everyone, whether he is a university professor or a person from the lower classes of society, whether he is a worker on a daily salary or clothing, without any discrimination,” said Akhtar Hossen, who was named one of the secretary of the new members of the new party, for Al Jazeera.

The founders of the party said they were collecting opinions of nearly 200,000 people, both the internet and offline, the type of policy they should follow and what questions needed emergency. They said that the answers reveal a strong desire to exploit corruption, reforming of education and ensuring a universal health care approach.

Speaking from the stage on Friday, Islam said: “There will be no place for Pro-India or Pro-Pakistan’s policy in Bangladesh.

Akhter, speaking with Al Jazeera, said that the new party would be removed from ideological divisions.

“Our policy will deal with good management, ensuring equality and ensuring civic benefits for all,” he said.

Akhter said that the new party was inspired by similar parties abroad: Aam Aadmi (AAP) party in India, a crislet politician, Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) in Pakistan, and the Turkiya Party (AK Party). Akhter said that the conditions that encouraged the creation of these political movements were also present in Bangladesh.

AAP was born from the popular anti -corruption movement in 2012 and ruled the Indian territory of the national capital of Delhi for more than a decade until it was defeated by the Hindu Major Bharatiya Party (BJP) this month. AAP is still governing the northern Indian state of Punjab.

Khan’s PTI interrupted the task of the two major Pakistani party parties-Pakistani Muslim league (Nawaz) and Pakistani People’s Party-how to win the 2018 elections. He lost power in 2022 after Khan, then the Prime Minister, was removed on a vote of distrust. He is now in prison because of a series of cases that insists that they are politically motivated. Despite these shortcomings, the party is still the most popular political force in Pakistan, which was proven in last year’s national elections, in which PTI-A-Koji candidates were forced to compete as independent after the party lost the symbol-founded, the only largest piece of place in parliament.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogana AK Party has been governing the party for almost 25 years, although he now sees signs of significant challenges to his power.

Akhter said that seeking inspiration from these movements “does not mean that we will replicate these parties.”

“Bangladesh has its own unique context and we want to give a special example,” he said.

A beaten road in front

But analysts said the new party would face a series of challenges and overcome internal cracks, presenting a unique front and presenting themselves as different from existing political entities will be the main immediate struggles.

Shortly after joining the temporary government, student leaders announced the formation of the National Citizens Committee (NCC), a platform aimed at uniting people from different political backgrounds, because the country is being renovated after Hasina.

The idea was to offer a new political compact to the people of Bangladesh. However, since talks about the floating new political parties began last month, disputes appeared in NCC, as most fractions agree on Islam as their leader, but clashes with other key positions.

On Wednesday, Ali Ahsan Zone and Rafe Salman Rifat – two former Bangladesh leader Islami Chhattrashibir, the Student Wing of Jamaat, who were also part of the USA – announced on Facebook that they would not join the new party.

They and other student leaders from Jamaat’s student body claimed that because of their political affiliation, they were held outside the key positions in the new party. Zvoed said in his post that he wanted a new party well. However, Ariful Islam, a joint secretary of the new party, told Al Jazeera, that the proposals on division were over -exacerbated, and student leaders associated with Jamaat could later be involved in leading positions.

These tensions, which have played outdoors, reflect the challenges that the new party will face, said political analyst Zahed Ur Rahman, who believes that the new strength guided by students has already taken some wrong steps.

He pointed out that some student leaders, unlike Islam, remain in the temporary government. It is unclear if I can join the new party. “Joining the temporary government, they share his successes and failures,” Rahman told Al Jazeera.

Rahman said the party included figures from the whole ideological spectrum, from leftists to conservatives, which led to fear of “internal ideological friction”. He added that this could prevent the party from becoming a “cohesive force.”

Rezaul Karim Rony, analyst and editor of Jodan magazine, claimed that the fighting for leadership in the political party was natural, and Islam remained the central character of the movement in relief of internal divisions.

Still, Rony warned that only the party formation was not enough. “They have to understand that wide support during the uprising [against Hasina] He will not automatically turn into political support, “he said, emphasizing the need for” a vision that connects people echoing outside the rhetoric. “

And how did the existing Bangladesh’s political parties respond to the arrival of a new rival?

In September, when student leaders first announced their plans for the formation of their own party, BNP deputy leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called into question the neutrality of the temporary government and warned that people would reject the “King’s Sponsored State”.

Jamaat then repeated those feelings. Jamaata Shafiquer Rahman’s leader said: “Those who are currently part of a temporary government, because non -partisan figures will no longer remain neutral if they enter politics or form a party.”

However, both BNP and Jamaat have mitigated their views since Islam resigned from the Government this week. “We welcome a new party. Since the individual who will lead, the new party has resigned from the Government, we do not have complaints right now, “Alamgir told Al Jazeera.

Jamaat Secretary General Mia Glam Parwar also welcomed the formation of a new party, but with a note of caution.

“We have the bitter history of the ruler who form political parties sponsored by the state and impose authoritarism to the people. But we want to believe that this new political party will introduce a democratic, safe and involuntary approach to the Bangladesh policy, which uses the people, “he said.

For now, the new party has a narrow window window, analysts said.

“In the July uprising, he encouraged the desire among the people of Bangladesh for a new policy. If the new party can meet this request, it has the potential to become a dominant political force in Bangladesh, “Rony said.” Otherwise, that’s not. “