DHAKA: As the general elections in Bangladesh approach, major political parties are engaged in a heated exchange regarding the need for reforms prior to the polls.
As the election approaches, the leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, and the newly formed National Citizens' Party (NCP) have been engaging in verbal attacks on each other, according to a report by the leading Bangladeshi daily, The Dhaka Tribune.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claimed that the recent murder of a 43-year-old scrap trader Lal Chand Sohag in Mitford, Old Dhaka is a deliberate attempt to "create unrest" in the country and to pursue evil political agendas following allegations of involvement of its party leaders and workers in the gruesome act.