Ms Ankita Sanyal is working as Associate Research Fellow at ICPS, New Delhi. She has been a doctoral student in the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
In June, a new party, the Bangladesh Development Party, applied for registration with the Election Commission of Bangladesh. It has been known for some time that the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami – which was deregistered as a political party in 2013 since its constitution contradicts the Bangladesh Constitution – has been contemplating its political future by forming a new party.