Bangladesh Kallyan Party, which has been staging antigovernment protests with the BNP for an election-time caretaker administration, has decided to contest in the parliamentary polls. Its Chairman Syed Muhammad Ibrahim announced at a press conference in Dhaka on Wednesday that they had left the 12-Party Alliance and will take part in the election under a new platform, the Jukto Front, with the Bangladesh Muslim League and the Bangladesh Jatiya Party. Bangladesh Muslim League President Sheikh Zulfiker Bulbul Chowdhury and Bangladesh Jatiya Party’s Executive Chairman Sirajul Islam were also present. He admitted the party’s “political inability to succeed in protests against the Awami League government”, which he realised after the Oct 28 rallies by the BNP and its allies. “I’ve taken an alternative path to speak my mind, God willing, in parliament,” he said.

Source: bd News24 November 22, 2023 17:39 UTC