NCP, AB Party, Rastro Songskar Andolan launch Democratic Reform Alliance before election

The new political front will expand as more parties and veteran figures join it, says Nahid Islam

Ahead of the general election, the National Citizen Party (NCP) has joined forces with Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party) and the Rastro Songskar Andolan to formally launch a new political alliance styled the Democratic Reform Alliance.

The platform aims to build nationwide public support for state reform and to strengthen their collective challenge in the next parliamentary polls, likely to be held in the first half of February.

The announcement came on Sunday afternoon at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), where senior leaders of the three organisations jointly unveiled the alliance.

NCP Convenor Nahid Islam was made the spokesperson of the coalition.

The leaders expressed hope that several other reform-minded political parties, organisations, fronts, platforms and veteran political figures would join the alliance in the coming days.

Nahid said their unity would remain an ongoing process, saying those who have long struggled for reforms and envisioned Bangladesh as a sovereign and dignified state would now “remain united under this platform”.

Stressing its broader ambition, he added that the alliance was not merely an electoral coalition, but fundamentally a political coalition built around the agenda of structural reform.