Jatiya Party Chairman Anisul Islam Mahmud has claimed that Bangladesh’s administration is now fully politicized, questioning how a free and fair election can be held under such circumstances.

He said the 2024 election was one-sided, leading to public disengagement from the voting process. If history repeats, he warned, Bangladesh risks sliding into authoritarian rule akin to Hitler and Mussolini’s regimes.

Highlighting political hypocrisy, Anisul said:
“Those branding Jatiya Party as collaborators once contested elections alongside Awami League. Before the 2014 polls, we held multiple meetings with BNP for an alliance, but BNP’s disinterest thwarted it. Today, Jamaat demands our ban, but we never sought to ban them. In fact, when Awami League banned Jamaat, Jatiya Party opposed it.”