Perhaps never before was the BNP, one of the two main political parties in Bangladesh, in need of such retrospection instead of celebrating its founding anniversary. While the ruling Awami League, the oldest and biggest political party in Bangladesh, tightens its stranglehold on power by the day, the 38-year-old BNP has been bumbling from one blunder to another. The party has since been on a political hiatus, still obviously reeling from the aftermath of two failed campaigns which further demoralised grassroots party workers. That is not altogether lost on the stalwarts of the BNP, a large portion of whom wish to part ways with Jamaat. In other words, it would have been apt for the BNP to begin practising democracy, but that never happened.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 01, 2016 19:41 UTC