Overview
- Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman said the NCP and the Liberal Democratic Party have joined an existing eight-party front, expanding it to a 10-member coalition for the 12 February election.
- About 30 senior NCP figures issued a memorandum rejecting the tie-up over Jamaat’s 1971 record, and prominent leaders Tasnim Jara and Tajnuva Jabeen resigned, with Jara saying she will run as an independent.
- Mahfuz Alam, a central figure in the July 2024 uprising and former interim adviser, publicly declared he would not be part of the NCP after the alliance announcement.
- NCP convenor Nahid Islam described the arrangement as electoral rather than ideological, citing the killing of activist Sharif Osman Hadi and security risks, and said the goal includes consolidating support for reforms outlined in the July Charter referendum.
- With the Awami League barred and the BNP viewed as the frontrunner, earlier NCP–BNP seat talks collapsed, and Jamaat says nominations for all 300 constituencies are close to finalisation.