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Thirteen cardinal leaders of the student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) person resigned successful the past 8 days implicit its alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami up of the elections successful Bangladesh successful February, a study said.
Apart from confederation with Jamaat, the leaders besides raised respective communal allegations against NCP, including a deficiency of transparency successful decision-making and governmental compromise, Bangladesh’s web portal The Business Standard reported connected Saturday (January 3, 2026). The fierce 2024 convulsive thoroughfare campaign, dubbed the July Uprising, was carried retired nether the banner of the Students against Discrimination (SAD), and a ample offshoot of the level successful February this twelvemonth emerged arsenic the NCP with interim authorities main Muhammad Yunus' backing.
Despite the objections, Jamaat main Shafiqur Rahman officially announced the confederation with the NCP past week astatine a property league astatine the National Press Club successful Dhaka, the study said.
Even earlier the confederation was formally announced, 30 cardinal NCP leaders submitted a memorandum to enactment convener Nahid Islam voicing objections to the projected partnership.
The archetypal signatory to the memorandum and the NCP's associated member-secretary, Mushfiq Us Saleheen, had told reporters astatine the clip that they had sent the memo titled "Principled objections to a imaginable confederation successful airy of the accountability of the July Uprising and enactment values" to enactment convenor Nahid Islam.
The archetypal large resignation came connected December 25, arsenic confederation discussions were beginning. Mir Arshadul Hoque, the NCP's associated subordinate caput and its nominated campaigner for Chattogram-16, discontinue the party, the study said.
The 2nd resignation came aft 2 days, with Tasnim Jara resigning arsenic associated subordinate secretary. She announced connected societal media that, fixed the existent reality, she had decided not to contention the predetermination arsenic a campaigner of immoderate circumstantial enactment oregon confederation and alternatively tally arsenic an independent, it added.
A time later, NCP associated convener, Tajnuva Jabeen, announced her resignation connected societal media. She had been nominated arsenic the party's campaigner for Dhaka-17 and was actively campaigning, it said. Other leaders to resign were Azad Khan Bhashani, Arif Sohel, Khaled Saifullah, Mushfiq Us Salehin, Khan Md Morsalin, Farhad Alam Bhuiyan, Al Amin Ahmed Tutul, Asif Mostafa Jamal, Mir Habib Al Manjur and Wahiduzzaman, the study confirmed. The memorandum submitted by enactment leaders highlighted the Jamaat's arguable governmental history, peculiarly its relation against Bangladesh's independency and alleged collaboration successful genocide and crimes during the 1971 Liberation War, describing these arsenic fundamentally incompatible with Bangladesh's antiauthoritarian tone and the NCP's halfway values.
The memo alleged that the Jamaat's pupil wing, Chhatra Shibir, successful the caller past, infiltrated and sabotaged different parties successful its efforts to blasted the NCP for assorted incidents and dispersed misinformation and propaganda.
It warned that the planned confederation with the Jamaat would undermine the NCP's governmental credibility and nationalist trust, creating disorder and disappointment among "many of our activists and supporters, particularly among the younger procreation and mean citizens who enactment caller politics".
