Some of these smaller parties, not aligned with either the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance or the opposition BNP-led 20-party coalition, are even planning on fielding candidates in all 300 electoral seats
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the Awami League government has been strategically controlling the country's media for almost one and a half decades
With the fall of United Front Government of Abu Hossain Sarkar in 1956, Ataur Rahman Khan formed the Awami League Government in East Pakistan and Sheikh Mujib, Captain Monsur Ali, Manoranjan Dhar and few other prominent Awami League leaders joined the Cabinet of Ataur Rahman Khan.