Mir Arshadul Haque, joint member secretary of the NCP central committee, resigned on Thursday, saying he did not believe the promises of the July mass uprising could be fulfilled from within the party.
“I felt that I would not be able to achieve this from within the NCP,” he told Dhaka Tribune.
On Saturday night, Tasnim Jara resigned as the party’s first senior joint member secretary and announced she would contest the upcoming election as an independent candidate from Dhaka-9.
In a Facebook post, she wrote: “Due to practical circumstances, I have decided not to participate in the election as a candidate of any specific party or alliance.”
Tajnuva Jabeen also stepped down from her position as joint convener Sunday and announced that she would not contest the next general election.
Criticising the process behind the alliance, she wrote: “This is being framed as a political strategy or an electoral alliance. I would say it was planned—carefully engineered and brought to this point.”
Meanwhile, Monira Sharmin, the NCP’s nominated candidate for Naogaon-5, withdrew from the upcoming 13th national election Sunday.
Samanta Sharmin, another senior party leader, publicly opposed the alliance but did not resign.
In a separate Facebook post, former adviser Mahfuz Alam—considered one of the party’s key thinkers despite holding no formal position—said he was “not with this NCP.”
Mahfuz expressed optimism about the emergence of a new political and economic settlement, saying he would welcome anyone who joined him.
“The rise of alternative and moderate youth and July forces is imminent,” he wrote.
Amid these developments, critics say a breakaway faction could emerge from within the NCP, potentially under the leadership of Mahfuz Alam and others opposed to the alliance decision.
