The quota reform movement started on the first day of July 2024. At first, it was termed a quota reform movement, but gradually it became an anti-quota as well as an anti-government movement fuelled by some opportunistic political powers.
Sheikh Hasina's victory for the fourth consecutive term in the Bangladesh election is a significant development for Bangladesh and the entire region. However, Hasina's victory was expected in an election where oppositions were tactically kept out.
Bangladesh finds itself at a critical juncture as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secures yet another term in a Parliamentary election marred by controversy and opposition boycotts.
At least four people died while more than 500 BNP-Jamaat men were arrested across Bangladesh on the first day of the Opposition's nationwide 72-hour rail, road, and waterways blockade on Tuesday.
He made this statement after visiting the injured policemen at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday evening.
Will Dhaka become an isolated island, disconnected from the rest of the country as it was on December 10 last year and July 28 this year?
The injured leaders were promptly taken to Comilla Medical College Hospital for treatment, according to Dhaka Tribune's report.
Bangladesh may be heading for a serious political crisis as its main opposition parties have come together to demand that the next general election be held under the superintendence and control of a neutral, caretaker government, and not under the aegis of the present Awami League dispensation.
Hasina dropped 36 members from the previous Cabinet and also didn't pick members of allied parties in her new Cabinet.
Stupendous no less has been the mandate that Hasina’s party has won; it would be a gross understatement to call it massive, with 288 of the 300 parliamentary seats under its belt.
