How should we view these elections in light of the upcoming national elections?
Did anyone expect that the ruling party candidate would lose her security deposit or manage to bag only eight percent of the votes?
A Dhaka court yesterday said the injunction barring Jatiya Party chief GM Quader from making any political decision of the party would remain in force.
After Jatiya Party presidium member Mashiur Rahman Ranga’s expulsion, JP chairman’s adviser Ziaul Huq Mridha has been removed from all party posts.
The prime minister had made a very profound and significant remark at the beginning of this month on the state of the opposition in the country.
The track record of illegally seizing state power cost the legitimacy of the opposition parties, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said, condemning the parties for their lack of involvement with democracy.
Jatiya Party today nominated Mir Abdus Sabur Asud and Kazi Golam Kabir to contest in the Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 by-elections.
Anwar Hossain Manju and Sheikh Shahidul Islam are re-elected chairman and general secretary respectively of Jatiya Party (Manju) for next three years at the party’s triennial council at capital’s Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh.
Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader appoints Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud MP as the party’s senior co-chairman.
At least 70 Awami League leaders have filed nomination papers as independent candidates from 43 constituencies in 21 districts, defying the party high command's repeated warnings of punitive action for going against party nominees.
Jatiya Party secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader says their chairman HM Ershad is now fine and he does not need to go to Singapore for treatment right now.
Ruling AL has given 47 seats to HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party for contesting in the upcoming polls. The Daily Star obtained a copy of the candidates and the constituencies they will be contesting for. Take a look inside to know more about the candidates.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, who is currently admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka, is likely to fly to Singapore for better treatment, party sources say.
Jatiya Party and other parties of the Awami League-led alliance would now field MP candidates separately, leaving the seat-sharing issue to be solved later, as the deadline for filing nomination papers expires tomorrow.
Jatiya Party (JP) starts distribution of its nomination letters to its candidates for the upcoming 11th parliamentary election slated to be held on December 30.
Jatiya Party (JP) extends the date of nomination forms distribution for its candidatures till November 15 in the next Jatiya Sangsad polls slated for December 30.
Jatiya Party’s alliance presses the Election Commission for immediate announcement of election schedule. United National Alliance (UNA) conveys the pressure at a meeting with election commissioners at the commission’s Agargaon office.
Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate Shamim Hyder Patwari wins the by election of Gaibandha-1 (Sundarganj) constituency.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad says that no political party will be able to come to the power alone without his party.
