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The NCP, a big offshoot of Students in opposition to Discrimination (SAD), which led final yr’s avenue marketing campaign dubbed because the July Uprising, toppling then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League and putting in Professor Muhammad Yunus because the Chief Adviser.
“The fee couldn’t present any authorized logic for not allocating the shapla (water lily) as our image and due to this fact we’re sticking to our demand,” the NCP’s convenor Nahid Islam was quoted as saying on Wednesday by newspapers a day after the EC revealed its resolution on the problem.
Mr. Islam mentioned the NCP would give its “closing response” as soon as the EC takes its “formal resolution”. However, the social gathering’s chief coordinator for northern Bangladesh, Sarjis Alam, threatened to halt the polls except their demand was met.
“Since there is no such thing as a authorized barrier, the NCP should get the ‘shapla’ as its image; there is no such thing as a different choice. Unless we get it, we are going to see how the election is held and the way somebody may dream of accomplishing energy,” Mr. Alam posted on social media.
EC’s senior secretary, Akhter Ahmed, on Tuesday advised a media briefing that NCP wouldn’t be allotted the image they demanded as it’s “not included within the listing of electoral symbols as per the rules”.
“The shapla shouldn’t be on our listing of 115 electoral symbols. According to the principles, political events should select an emblem from the authorised listing,” he mentioned.
The “shapla” is the nationwide emblem of Bangladesh.
NCP chief coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary led the social gathering delegation to the EC to get its registration earlier and mentioned the social gathering have to be registered with the “shapla” image.
Asked how they might safe the image because it was not included within the EC’s revised listing, he mentioned amendments could possibly be made at any time.
Patwary additionally mentioned the social gathering anticipated to win round 150 constituencies out of 300, with nominations together with former military officers, in addition to girls, farmers, and employees concerned within the July rebellion.
Several political analysts, nevertheless, speculate a bleak destiny for NCP in elections, significantly after their nominees witnessed a landslide defeat in college students’ union elections in two main public universities – the premier Dhaka University and suburban Jahangirnagar University.
Bangladesh’s largest Islamist Party, Jamaat-e-Islami-backed Islami Chhaita Shibir, received in many of the posts in each elections. Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the scholar wing of former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party, additionally witnessed an astounding defeat, although it emerged because the second greatest scholar group within the central college students union polls within the two universities.
Published – September 25, 2025 02:16 pm IST
