BNP has demanded that the government cancel its recent decision to hike price of gas by 22.78 percent.

The BNP today said that it reached a consensus with Ganosanghati Andolan to wage a “simultaneous” movement to ensure the fall of the Awami League government and establish a polls-time neutral government.

The BNP today said that its movement on the streets has been kicked off with the movement of its student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD).

BNP activists are utterly upset as the long-cherished Padma Bridge project has been completed, Law Minister Anisul Huq said this morning.

BNP has formed a new committee for Jubo Dal, the youth front of the party, led by former Chhatra Dal President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku.

BNP has decided to hold talks with other opposition parties to chalk out a roadmap for a united movement.

BNP today said that it will scrap all “repressive acts and ordinances including Digital Security Act” if it comes to power.

BNP has expelled Cumilla City Corporation mayoral candidate Monirul Huq Sakku from the party.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the current government will face consequences far worse than that of Sri Lanka’s.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today assured that the next general election will be held in free and credible manner and urged all registered political parties to participate the election.

There is no question of participating in the next parliamentary election unless the current AL government resigns, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said today, (May 8, 2022).

The government will make all-out efforts to bring opposition BNP to the next parliamentary election, slated for late next year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Awami League never used the backdoor for grabbing power, rather it always assumes state power through elections.

Both BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League MP Haji Salim are convicts. Both needed treatment abroad. Even though family members of Khaleda Zia have asked the law minister and government repeatedly to take her abroad for medical treatment, they were denied by the authorities. Yet Haji Salim, who's been convicted for 10 years over corruption, has returned home after receiving medical treatment in Bangkok, Thailand. There has been soaring criticism in the national media regarding the treatment by the government in regard to the two convicts.

Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim, who was convicted with a 10-year sentence in a corruption case, has left the country for Bangkok.

MA Mannan, former mayor of Gazipur City Corporation, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka today. He was 72.

The prime minister had made a very profound and significant remark at the beginning of this month on the state of the opposition in the country.

The track record of illegally seizing state power cost the legitimacy of the opposition parties, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said, condemning the parties for their lack of involvement with democracy.

A case was filed against 40 leaders and activists of BNP for threatening to oust government through an armed movement.

BNP has called a daylong hartal -- from dawn till dusk -- tomorrow in Dhaka city, rejecting the results of Dhaka North and South City Corporation elections.