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Published : 28 Dec 2025, 01:52 PM
Tajnuva Jabeen, a senior leader of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has resigned from the youth-led political group amid reports of a potential alliance between the party and Jamaat-e-Islami.
She announced her decision in a Facebook post at 12:35pm on Sunday.
Tajnuva had been serving as a joint convenor of the NCP. Her resignation comes a day after the party’s senior joint member secretary Tasnim Jara also quit the party and said she would contest the upcoming election as an independent candidate.
In her post, Tajnuva said she had planned to resign after an official announcement of the alliance but decided to step down sooner after becoming convinced the deal had already been finalised.
"Let me repeat: my resignation is not only because of the alliance itself, but more because of the process through which it was formed. Distrust and a lack of confidence are the main reasons.
“If the party had grown and become established on a larger scale, perhaps compromises could have been considered. But from the very beginning, the idea seems to have been that first we must enter parliament, and then the organisation would grow around the few MPs who emerge from that. What a strange situation.”
She also said she would not be contesting the upcoming parliamentary election, adding: "What hurts the most is that my mother is arriving from Chattogram today to support my election campaign, and on this very day I have been forced to make this decision [to quit the NCP].
"I know many people are deeply upset by my decision. But this is what is right for me."
Tajnuva, a Chattogram native, rejected suggestions that her opposition to the alliance was rooted in historical differences with Jamaat or concerns related to women’s issues. Instead, she said her strongest objection was to what she described as a “planned” and “engineered” process through which the alliance was formed.
“This is bigger than ideology; it is about trust. Just a few days ago, there was a nationwide call to collect nominations with much fanfare, and 125 people were given nominations. Now seat-sharing deals have been finalised for just 30 seats, and the rest will not be allowed to contest. This decision has been sealed. The situation has been pushed right to the very end so that no one can even contest as an independent."
“But no decision was taken in any general meeting or Election Commission–level meeting that said if an alliance happens, candidates in other seats must step aside. Nor was there any decision that those candidates would have to campaign for Jamaat in the remaining constituencies. Jamaat has reached seat-sharing deals for 70 constituencies with the Chormonai Pir [Islami Andolan Bangladesh], while a party born out of a mass uprising is being left with just 30 seats.”
Tajnuva also denied media reports suggesting she opposed the alliance out of fear of losing a nomination, saying: "I had written earlier that if [seat-sharing] negotiations took place in my constituency, I would not contest, even if the opponent was very strong, I was prepared to fight. That opportunity was not given. Instead, people from their group are flooding platforms with explanations about why and how this alliance was formed."
A trained medical doctor who studied at Cumilla Medical College, Tajnuva accused party leaders of branding internal disagreements as “revolutionary debate” while dismissing critics as emotional. She questioned whether the party leadership had upheld commitments made in its Feb 28 declaration and in recent public debates.
She said that had the NCP established itself independently, forming alliances at a later stage would not have been problematic, but questioned why such a move was being made in the party’s very first election.
Calling the alliance a calculated outcome rather than a tactical decision, Tajnuva said other political options had been systematically eliminated, leaving the party with no alternative but to align with Jamaat.
