Foreign Advisor Touhid Hossain has dismissed the letter sent by the Awami League to the UN calling for the suspension of assistance for the national elections as “ineffective”. Due to its suspension, the Awami League cannot participate in the elections scheduled for February. As a result, the Awami League candidates won 153 of 300 seats uncontested in the 10th parliament, which the BNP described as a “parliament without votes”. The student-led July Uprising, which removed the Awami League from power, involved severe government crackdowns. Following demands from student groups, the National Citizen Party, Jamaat-e-Islami, and several religion-based parties, the Advisory Council suspended Awami League activities in May.
