Durbar Bagerhat

BNP is not on people's side: Sheikh Tonmoy Durbar Bagerhat September 20, 2023 Sheikh Tonmoy, MP for Bagerhat-2, has slammed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for increasing its engagement with various embassies instead of engaging with the people. "The BNP has been nowhere to be seen during the COVID pandemic or the recent floods," Tonmoy said. "Their leaders are all abroad, and they don't care about the development of the country. Elections will be held on time, and the people are with us. The Awami League will win again under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina." Tonmoy made these remarks on Sunday while inaugurating the office of Sadar Upazila Awami League at Bagerhat Khanjahan (R.H.) shrine.

Awami League and Common People’s Politics The sun of Bangladesh’s independence that had set on one 23 June in the Battle of Plassey (1757) began to rise on another 23 June after nearly a couple of centuries (1949) at a place called ‘Rose Garden’ located in old Dhaka’s KM Das Lane where a common peoples’ party, East Pakistan Awami Muslim League came into being with Maulana Bhashani as the President, Shamsul Haq of Tangail as the Secretary and the 29 year old budding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the Joint Secretary.  That was the beginning of a real mass movement, a conscious popular demand for the autonomy of a province and thereby the emergence of a people’s republic which was not taken heed of by the Pakistan Government, who stood to benefit from the so-called ‘Two Nation Theory’. As a matter of fact, the common people of East Pakistan soon became disillusioned with the racially discriminatory rules of the Government and badly needed a new political platform to give vent to