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Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Staff Reporter and in-charge, Rights and Justice

Ahasan is the Staff Reporter focused on politics, human rights, law and crime issues at the Daily Observer since February ’2018. He is also a practicing lawyer and film researcher.
Ahasan can be reached at [email protected]

Institutional uncertainty at ACC over three key resignations

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has fallen into institutional uncertainty following the resignation of Chairman Dr Mohammad Abdul Momen and commissioners Mohammad Ali Akbar Azizi and retired Brigadier General Hafiz Ahsan Farid on March 3. Their departure has left the statutory

Ordinance Overhang

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The first session of the 13th National Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) is set to commence on March 12, and the legislative agenda that awaits the newly elected government is unprecedented in scale. Law Minister Md. Asaduzzaman assured that all 133 Ordinances

EC all set to hold election before Eid

Walid Khan, Hasib Murad and Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The Election Commission of Bangladesh has begun preparations to hold elections for the 50 reserved women's seats in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad, aiming to complete the process before Eid-ul-Fitr, officials said. The vote will take place within the constitutionally mandated

NCP's one year journey from streets to JS

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Born out of the July 2024 student uprising against state job quotas, which escalated into nationwide protests and led to the fall of the Awami League government on 5 August, the National Citizen Party (NCP) recently marked its first anniversary,

Thrust on stopping mobocracy immediately

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

In Bangladesh's turbulent political landscape, newly appointed Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed recently declared that the days of mob culture are over. His pronouncement follows an interregnum marked by mob violence, during which the state's coercive monopoly weakened and streets often

Rising mob violence calls for new laws

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

In contemporary Bangladesh, mob violence has evolved from episodic disorder into a systemic pathology challenging constitutional governance. Streets resemble tribunals, crowds act as judges, and rumor poses as evidence. When enforcement falters through fatigue or ambivalence, collective fury fills the

Ex-interim govt Advisers to face ACC probe

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Advisers of the recently departed interim government led by Muhammad Yunus are under intense scrutiny as the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) receives hundreds of complaints alleging billion-taka corruption, bail trading, judicial manipulation, embezzlement, tender fraud, and illicit foreign deals. Political leaders

Desertion, dilemma overshadow NCP quest for firm footing

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

National Citizen Party (NCP) is moving swiftly to consolidate its organisational strength following its performance in the 13th National Assembly elections, while simultaneously navigating internal dissent and complex political alliances.As part of an 11-party coalition, the NCP secured six out

AL's visibility from obscurity signals new political calculus

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

After 18-month of enforced silence following the August 5, 2024 Mass Uprising and the subsequent ban on its political activities by the interim government, the Awami League and its affiliated organisations are gradually emerging from obscurity.The parliamentary elections on February

NCP-Jamaat's shadow cabinet: Ghosts or guardians?

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

A shadow is the body's most faithful companion, wordless, weightless, and inseparable, proving presence even before touch or speech affirms it. It stretches with motion, contracts with stillness, and in its mute loyalty records every gesture of existence. Much like