The main advisor to Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, assured that nationwide surveys of public opinion would take place from December 2025 and June 2026, although political parties continue to push him to determine the survey.
The Bangladeshi elections are due after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin was expelled last year after the national protest. Yunus then took over as the head of the Provisional Government 8 August 2024.
India had previously called for early organization of free, righteous and inclusive elections in Bangladesh, and at the same time raised concerns about the prohibition of the league of Sheikh Hasina in the neighboring country.
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Here are the latest details you need to know about the elections in Bangladesh:
1. Yunus acknowledged the call for parliamentary elections in Bangladesh and said they could take place by June next year. During his visit to Japan, the temporary boss announced that other national elections would take place “whenever between December and June next year”.
“Prof yunus said Taro ASO that the elections would take place from December to June. It has set a six -month time frame and will be made in this period,” said Shafiqul Alam Tribune Dhaka Tribune.
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2. Last week, the Bangladesho election commission (EC) issued a directive prohibiting Awami League and its associated entities to carry out political activities, including assemblies and conferences until the Bangladeshi International Court for Crimes fails its proceedings.
The court was established in 2009 by Hasina to investigate the crimes committed by the Pakistani army during the Bangladeshi War for independence in 1971.
“We suspended the registration of the Bangladesh Awami League (as a political party) in accordance with the announcement of the Ministry of the Interior,” said Ahmed, head of the Secretary of the Electoral Commission.
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3. Awami League refused “this decision of the fascist dictator Yunus government”. The party said in its statement: “… We express a firm commitment that the Bangladesh Awami League will continue to properly carry out its activities and ignore this decision of the fascist government Yunus.”
4. In the middle of the political uprising in Bangladesh in India Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) On Thursday (May 29) Mohammad refuted Yunus’s claim that “Indian media delegitimizes the temporary leadership”.
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The statement came when Yunus claimed that external factors, including India, could be destabilized by the country. According to Yunus, he said that “tireless efforts to destabilize Bangladesh” internally and externally, which leads to a “war situation”.
“When a statement about this species comes, you seem to want to turn away from your own challenges related to the management of things – and blame others for these external problems caused by others – the problem does not solve,” Mea spokesman, “Mea will not solve Mea. Randhir Jaiswal said on Thursday.
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5. Mea spokesman also called on Bangladesh to organize an inclusive, free and fair elections at the beginning of the date to find out the will and order the people.
Jaiswal said: “We have clearly expressed our position on Bangladesh, in terms of elections in Bangladesh, and we have done so consistently. Bangladesh must find out the will and mandate of people by organizing inclusive, fair and free elections on the early date.”
6. The Ministry of External Affairs previously called the Bangladeshi ban on the Awami League “regarding”. Mea Randhir Jaiswal spokesman said on May 13: “Prohibition Awami League without a proper process is about development.”
“As a democracy, India is naturally concerned about the limitation of democratic freedoms and the reduction of political space. We strongly support the timely possession of the free, fair and inclusive elections in Bangladesh,” Jaiswal said.
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7. Meanwhile, the head of the newly released political party told Reuters that the Bangladeshi temporary government was not able to fully ensure that the public security and organization of the general elections this year would be difficult.
“In the last seven months, we have all expected that the police system, law and order will be restored by short -term reforms. It happened to some extent, but not to our expectations,” said Naid Islam, head of Jatiya Nagoriková or National Citizens (NCP) and former student leader.
“In the current situation in the area of law and order and the police system, I do not think that it is possible to organize national elections,” said 26 -year -old in his first interview as the head of NCP in Dhace.
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8. The National Civic Party (NCP) stated that the elections in Bangladesh must only take place after the reform completion. According to the Daily Star, the main coordinator of NCP Nasiruddin Patwari said it was possible to make election reforms and organize elections within a time framework set by Yunus.
9. However, the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party (BNP) of former Prime Minister Khaled Zia wants public opinion surveys that took place until December. The party said it would be “difficult” to continue to support Yunus’s government without a fixed election plan.
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10. According to Dhak Tribune, chairman of BNP Begum Khaleda Zia expressed hope that democracy would soon be restored in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi sick former Prime Minister Zia returned to the country from London at the beginning of May after four months of medical treatment and increased pressure on his temporary leaders to keep elections.
Zia and Hasina were alternately ruled by Bangladesh as Prime Minister since 1991, when the country returned to democracy after the release of authoritarian President HM Ershad.
11. Recently, there were rumors that Yunus was considering resignation. It was argued that the Bangladeshi de facto prime minister expressed concern about political parties that did not reach a “common foundation”.
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The reigning head of the Ministry of Planning, Wahiduddin Mahmud, told reporters, according to Ajazeera: “The main advisor (Yunus) remains with us – and other advisors also remain; we are here to bring us duties.”
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