Politics

Bangladesh’s political players are intent on using the promise of Rohingya repatriation as a political tool, no matter who forms the new government.

Even if the Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins, the Jamaat-e-Islami looks set to become a formidable opposition force, shifting the country’s political centre further to the right

With women comprising only four percent of candidates in 2026 general election, Bangladesh’s post-Hasina transition is reproducing the patriarchy it promised to dismantle

An alliance with the student-led National Citizen Party gives the Jamaat-e-Islami a chance to rebrand ahead of Bangladesh’s first election since the July Revolution

Shahrukh Alam talks to Harsh Mander about the criminalising of protest by Muslims, anti-constitutional arguments in courts, and how cultural narratives have allowed these shifts.