National Citizen Party (NCP) convener Nahid Islam has alleged that state institutions are once again being drawn into partisan control, warning that any attempt to sustain authoritarian politics would face organised public resistance.
"Bangladesh's institutions are being partisanised, and power politics is again rising in universities. If fascism or any form of dictatorship is attempted to be maintained, people will organise again and unite under the banner of NCP," he said at the Diploma Engineers Institute in the capital on Friday.
"NCP is a political party formed from the historical struggle of the July mass uprising. We want to reshape the country by utilising the strength of the youth and the new aspiration for change and reform in Bangladesh," he said.
Referring to electoral commitments, he alleged that the government had deviated from its reform agenda.
He further alleged that the government had reduced the electoral process to a routine transfer of power, detached from the political legacy of the July uprising.
Meanwhile, Former adviser to the interim government Mahfuz Alam has accused the government and political parties of "deceiving the people", raising concerns over what he described as a retreat from reform, justice and public accountability.
In a post on his verified Facebook page on Thursday night, Mahfuz criticised the conduct of parliament and appeared to question what he termed compromise politics.
"5+5 works in the parliament, but what works outside?" he wrote, in an apparent reference to parliamentary arrangements and political understandings beyond the House.
Referring to the current political and socio economic situation, he questioned the absence of public discourse on reforms and governance.
"Where has the talk of reforms and justice gone in the last two weeks? Where has the talk of energy crisis, infant deaths due to hunger, farmers dying for fuel, load shedding, the poor state of the economy, citizen insecurity, etc. gone?" he wrote.
