DHAKA: In a growing political crisis in Bangladesh ahead of next year’s election, the National Citizen Party (NCP) slammed both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami for engaging in “irrelevant debates” over the implementation of the July charter, alleging that it derailed the process and created uncertainty over the February 2026 polls, local media reported.
"Whether the referendum will happen before or after, this is a pointless argument between Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP -- we [NCP] will not be involved in this debate, " Bangladesh’s leading newspaper quoted Nasiruddin Patwary, chief coordinator of NCP, as saying during a programme in Dhaka on Thursday.