The interim leader of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, recently met the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader, who is expected to be at the forefront of elections next year.
Tarik Rahman, who lives in exile in the United Kingdom for 15 years, is the acting president of BNP, a major party, which was led by his mother, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for decades.
The meeting in London, the British capital London, was a hero amid growing tension in Bangladesh, which was closed in a stressful political part since ending in August 2024 in the resignation of former minister Sheikh Hasina.
Necessary improvement before elections
The BNP wanted an election by December 2025, while the interim government was targeting for April 2026, saying that the time needs time to implement the hosting of reforms.
Yunus and Rahman have now agreed that elections can be held in February – if there is progress on reforms.
Thesis includes constitutional reforms, changes in electoral process and promoting judicial freedom and freedom.
Authorities need to give justice to the victims of last year’s collective protests, killing hundreds of people, mostly by Hasina and his Awami League by loyal security forces.
Tasnim Zara, a National Citizen Party (NCP) leader formed by the student leader of last year’s protests, feels that the government has taken initial steps for the election, “institutional readiness is uneven.”
“The major election infrastructure, a fair Election Commission, a neutral civil administration and an independent judiciary require immediate reform. A reliable election will depend on whether political parties may agree on a reform package, it has been implemented in time,” he told DW.
While the agreement between BNP and Yunus is a welcome development for many observers, he said that the restoration of law and order to allow for a reliable election is a priority in which all major parties have been included.
Samam Parvez, a special assistant to the chairman of BNP, thinks that “disappointing law and order situation, uncontrolled uncontrolled crowd, and encouragement of diplomation” are obstacles “. “However, since the common people of Bangladesh usually have enthusiasm about participating in election campaigns and engaging, it is possible to remove obstacles with community support,” he told DW.
Dhaka-based political historian Mohiuddin Ahmed, however, is less optimistic. He said, “Bangladeshi political parties do not behave agile during elections. They use possible force to control polling stations. Elections will be challenging to maintain a systematic situation if the administration and police forces do not work properly,” they told DW.
Former government and security officials face criminal allegations
This year, a United Nations fact-Khoj mission found that former Bangladesh government and security system officials had violated serious human rights against protesters in the last summer and may be defeated crimes against humanity.
Hundreds of cases are files of Hasina and her colleagues, who fled to India on 5 August 2024. His Awami League party claims that the cases are politically motivated.
Observers say that the security forces of the country have lost the Dharm Sabha since last year’s rift, which has made a contradiction for the deteriorating security situation.
Naomi Hussain, a political sociologist and a professor at the SOAS University in London, said that Bangladesh was difficult to rule and this order was always “difficult to achieve.”
Hussain told DW, “This is one of the reasons why people worked with Sheikh Hasina for so long – at least he wiped out the power to maintain some glimpse of order, violent and oppressive, although it was for someone who wanted to dissatisfied.”
He said that politics was given a vacuum since Hasina’s expulsion, it was “no surprise” that the law and order was currently “a problem.”
He said, “I think the army is probably feeling the need to work with caution, especially especially especially especially especially especially special human rights violations. The Meeans is not too heavy with the crowd and the Islamist gangs that we see the news reports,” she said.
Army brought to deal with lodging
The interim government of Bangladesh has empowered the army officers with the post of Captain or Higher to help the police to maintain law and order in the country.
However, a former doctor who Tasnim Zara, now a politician, told DW that the army’s deployment did not resolve the crisis and only “highlighting deep issues”.
Zara said, “In the last 16 years, the state-sanctioned violence and Daman reduced the public trust deep and destabilized the foundation of the regime,” Zara asked to address the heritage.
“Permanent stability only wants to come through policy and security agencies.
Will Awami League be able to participate in the election?
The Awami League was banned last month at the party banned pending tests by a special tribunal and its leaders for alleged crimes against humanity and human rights violations.
But obs
Hussain said, “The party is a huge national body and still takes over the command of a lot of support in the county, perhaps in rural AEAS and among minority groups and women. It is not a good objective to ban them,” Hussain told DW.
He warned that the possibility of such a step leads to a “a super-bahumat landslide” for BNP, “who wants to be empowered to behave as Awami League in 2008 when his super-boundity is back.”
On the other hand, Zara feels that before the Awami League specifically allowed in the elections, its leaders should first be accountable to her alleged human rights violations, which “missing, torture, election rigging and wide murders.”
“A reliable legal process should address the thesis before any accused body participates. If justice is bypassed, it will destroy public belief and return the risk to the country a lot of oppression.
Edited by: Carl Sexton
