The once-banned Jamaat-e-Islami has made a significant comeback in these general elections. The chief of Bangladesh's Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami, Shafiqur Rahman, said that his party would not engage in the "politics of opposition" just for the sake of it.
Bangladesh’s cultural war intensifies in the wake of the July 2024 uprising, pitting new youth movements against traditional institutions over the nation's identity and the legacy of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam