An overnight rupture has surfaced within Bangladesh’s student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) over its proposed electoral alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami ahead of the February elections, exposing fault lines inside a party that rose rapidly after last year’s political upheaval. The first public sign of trouble came on Saturday night, when the party’s joint member-secretary Mushfiq Us Saleheen confirmed that a memorandum had been sent to party convenor Nahid Islam. On Saturday evening, senior joint member-secretary Tasnim Jara announced she was stepping down from her post. NCP joint convener Tajnuva Jabeen, also a doctor and a founding member of the party, announced her resignation in a Facebook post. According to the report, senior joint convenor Samata Sharmin, senior member-secretary Nahid Sarwar Niva, joint convenor Taznuva Jabin and joint member-secretary Nusrat Tabassum have all expressed reservations about aligning with the Jamaat or any religion-based party.

Source: The Telegraph December 28, 2025 11:01 UTC