Two major political parties – the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami – have stepped up their efforts to forge separate strategic alliances by courting smaller religion-based parties to expand their support base and enhance electoral prospects as the interim government is preparing for the next general election in December.
The BNP and Jamaat separately held several meetings with Islamic parties but a concrete framework for an election-centric alliance is yet to be finalised.