BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed said the party will soon give the “green signal” to single candidates in each constituency ahead of the upcoming national election. “We will very soon give the green signal for single candidates to start working in their respective constituencies. Once the election schedule is announced, official nominations will be made legally through the parliamentary board,” he told journalists at his Gulshan residence in Dhaka on Thursday (3 October).
Salahuddin said BNP has multiple qualified aspirants in every seat. “Not just two—many constituencies have five, seven, even ten potential candidates. We are following a systematic political process at the district and divisional levels,” he noted. He added that all prospective candidates have been directed to work in unity behind whoever secures the party’s electoral symbol. On seat-sharing with allies, Salahuddin said discussions are ongoing: “We will either claim or leave those constituencies from the alliance where victory is achievable.”
He also confirmed that political discussions have taken place with the National Citizen Party (NCP), though not at the constituency level.
Commenting on recent remarks by the Chief Adviser in New York regarding the Awami League, Salahuddin said, “His press secretary and law adviser clarified that there is no chance of the ban being lifted. The ban on the Awami League’s political activities was imposed under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Our demand has been to bring the Awami League under trial as a political entity, and its future participation in politics should be determined by the court.”
PT/ra
