DHAKA — One year since a landmark moment in the revolution in Bangladesh that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the protestors that drove the movement have seen little progress on the reforms that brought them out onto the streets. Political parties remain at loggerheads over how to proceed on contentious issues like constitutional reform and the timing of an election.
While the students party wants the next national election to be held after thorough reforms and the trial of Hasina, who fled to India, and supporters of her Awami League, the other major political groups have been putting immense pressure on the interim government to hold the country’s first election since the revolution in the near future.
