The National Citizen Party (NCP) has criticised the move to set Bangladesh’s election timeline through a meeting in the UK, calling it a “betrayal” of the 2024 mass uprising and warning it could trigger a new one. Speaking in Dhaka on Friday, NCP Chief Coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary said the decision to fix a poll date without national consensus “ignores the public will and takes the country backwards”. The party also disagreed with the interim government’s move to fix a date after a single-party meeting, calling it “undemocratic”. “We might have to launch a new mass uprising,” Nasiruddin added. That hasn’t changed.”“But a national election date cannot be announced after discussions with just one political party.
