Bangladesh to hold election in December 2025, says Khaleda Zia’s BNP after meeting with Yunus

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has said that the interim government will hold the next general elections in December 2025. The announcement came after BNP officials held a meeting with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka.

It’s been six months since Bangladesh has been living under an interim government after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted from the country in August 2024.

Khaleda’s BNP and rival Hasina’s Awami League have governed Bangladesh for most of the past three decades.

The BNP expects Yunus to soon announce a roadmap for general elections, its secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, told reporters.

“We have once again pressed them on this matter,” he said on Monday. “He (Yunus) told us that they are working to hold the election by December.”

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However, the BNP has been insisting the government hold early elections. Last month, Alamgir said, “We think the elections are possible in the middle of this year, and that means between July and Aug.”

It is the most specific date since prior suggestions by Yunus of possible timeframes for the end of 2025 or the middle of 2026.

Meanwhile, both parties have announced that they will hold nationwide protests against ht government.

While the Awami League is set to hold rallies on February 10, nationwide blockades on February 16 and hartals two days later, the BNP has said that it will demonstrate against the government in all 64 districts on February 11.

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With inputs from agencies