Staff Reporter:
Tajnuva Jabeen, joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP), resigned from the party on Sunday, expressing strong objections to the manner in which its electoral alliance was formed.
She made the announcement in a post on her verified Facebook account.
In the post, Tajnuva said many were assuming her objection stemmed from ideological or gender-related concerns regarding the alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami, but stressed that the real issue was “far more alarming.”
“What is more frightening than ideology is the process through which this has been done. It is being la-belled as political strategy or an electoral alliance. I would call it a planned move, carefully staged to reach this point,” she writes.
She alleged that while Jamaat-e-Islami was negotiating seat-sharing for 70 constituencies with the Char-monai Pir-led group, the party born out of the mass uprising was being allocated only 30 seats.
Tajnuva had initially received the NCP’s primary nomination for the Dhaka-17 constituency and had been actively campaigning there for several days.
Her resignation comes a day after senior joint member secretary of the NCP, Dr Tasnim Jara, stepped down on Saturday over the party’s decision to forge an alliance with Jamaat ahead of the 13th national parliamentary election.
Besides, 30 members of the party have sent a letter to NCP convener Nahid Islam, stating their unwill-ingness to join any alliance with Jamaat.
