Bangladesh Nationalist Party has expressed strong opposition to a proposed amendment to the Representation of the People Order, which, seeks to change the rules for alliance elections by requiring candidates to contest using their own party鈥檚 symbol rather than a common alliance symbol.
The interim government council of advisers in a meeting on Thursday scrapped the provision of using party symbols in local elections, deciding that from now on these elections would be held with individual symbols.
The Election Commission removed Bangladesh Awami League鈥檚 electoral symbol 鈥榖oat鈥� from the commission鈥檚 web site on Wednesday, nine weeks after suspending the registration of the party.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami nayeb-e-amir Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher on Wednesday said that their party had boycotted Tuesday鈥檚 National Consensus Commission dialogue in symbolic protest against the joint statement issued and the press conference held after the London meeting between the interim government chief adviser and the acting chair of the Bangladesh Nationalist party...
Assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order on February 6, on the 24th day of their continuous protest on Saturday staged a symbolic hanging programme demanding their appointments...
A group of female students of Dhaka University staged a sit-in and a symbolic hunger strike in front of the vice-chancellor鈥檚 residence on Monday morning, demanding accommodation facilities...