Nahid Islam, convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and a candidate of the 11-party alliance, on Friday said the politics practiced during the Sheikh Hasina era would no longer continue in Bangladesh, pledging to build a discrimination-free state and keep loan defaulters and land grabbers out of parliament. Addressing voters during the campaign, Nahid said the fall of the previous government came in the face of their movement and that the time had now come to reform both the state and society. Promising an end to harassment of ordinary people, Nahid said that under his party’s rule, citizens would no longer be held hostage by political leaders. During the campaign, Nahid sought votes for his electoral symbol, the “Shapla Kali” (water lily bud), in the February 12 election. Nahid walked through various roads in the area, starting from Aftabnagar and moving through Anandnagar and Merul Badda, exchanging greetings with residents and distributing leaflets.
