{"id":16689,"date":"2025-04-01T04:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/theres-no-party-like-an-iftar-party-for-bangladeshs-aspiring-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T04:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:33:24","slug":"theres-no-party-like-an-iftar-party-for-bangladeshs-aspiring-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/theres-no-party-like-an-iftar-party-for-bangladeshs-aspiring-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Party Like an Iftar Party for Bangladesh\u2019s Aspiring Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Around sunset during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, something remarkable happens in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. The streets in this city of more than 10 million people, known for its hectic bustle and choking traffic, turn quiet and empty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But for political parties, which know well the persuasive powers of full bellies, sunset is their high time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Iftar parties, where the faithful break their fast, were closely watched through the end of Ramadan last week for what direction Bangladesh could take after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/05\/world\/asia\/bangladesh-protests-hasina-resigns.html\" title=\"\">the overthrow of its authoritarian leader<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Who was attending which party? Who was seated next to whom? In Bangladesh\u2019s political vacuum, the answers to those questions offered clues to how new alliances could form and even the direction of changing geopolitical winds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To gauge the political temperature, we got ourselves invited to one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was hosted at a rooftop restaurant by Gono Odhikar Parishad, a small party born of an earlier wave of student protests in 2018, before the one last year that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The party had made arrangements for 600 people, and 900 showed up. Plates of fried snacks and sweets were passed around. Waiters kept the yogurt drinks flowing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There was one thing no one seemed to have thought about: How do you get hundreds of people who have not eaten or hydrated for 15 hours to the top floor? Definitely not by climbing eight flights of stairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The crowd, teeming in the tiny lobby painted like van Gogh\u2019s \u201cStarry Night,\u201d tried to squeeze into one elevator with a capacity of 18 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The elevator\u2019s operator \u2014 which remains a thing in this part of the world \u2014 had a difficult job. A gentle man with a beard dyed red, he sat on a plastic stool by the buttons. He loaded every trip with the precision of a shopkeeper weighing grapes, offloading bodies one by one until the elevator was no longer over capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the top, the restaurant heaved with people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dozens of tables were marked RESERVED FOR POLITICAL PARTIES or RESERVED FOR JOURNALISTS. It was mostly men, with a sprinkling of women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sangeeta Huq, a leader of the young party\u2019s youth division, said she had attended five iftar parties in the first two weeks of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEach wing, each division of our own party has an iftar party \u2014 youth wing, labor wing, human rights wing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From the podium in front of her, speech after speech was directed less at the fasting guests and more at the couple dozen cameras. The theme was clear: The country needed an election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The timing of that election is at the heart of a political divide. Some want it right away. Others want reforms first, to avoid a repeat of past rigged votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dominating the news, and naturally the chatter at iftar parties, was the unease between Bangladesh\u2019s military and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/24\/world\/asia\/bangladesh-students.html\" title=\"\">the student-driven interim government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The students are increasingly suspicious of the army chief, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman. Some think that the general, a relative of Ms. Hasina, the ousted prime minister, is trying to open space for a revival of her deposed party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Others suspect that the army chief is pressing for early elections because he has cut a deal with Ms. Hasina\u2019s longtime opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or B.N.P.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leaders of that party, on the other hand, suspect that the students are using their sway over the government, and on the streets, to delay the election in order to buy time and organize as a political force themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another big topic in Dhaka was where India \u2014 the giant neighbor that long supported Ms. Hasina and has now given her shelter \u2014 stood in all the political jostling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">New Delhi broadly pinned Ms. Hasina\u2019s downfall on what it called a conspiracy between the B.N.P. and Jamaat-e-Islami, the main Islamist party, painting them both as extremist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in a sign of changing times, Indian diplomats showed up at iftar gatherings for both parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cVery busy time,\u201d said Mia Golam Parwar, Jamaat\u2019s general secretary, whose schedule during Ramadan revolved around iftar parties. \u201cWe feel like this is our high time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He boasted that 39 diplomatic missions had been represented at Jamaat\u2019s iftar party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just around the corner from Gono Odhikar\u2019s rooftop event, a local branch of the B.N.P. was hosting its own iftar party under a tent in a schoolyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People sat at round tables as biryani boxes and soda cans were unloaded from a truck. A loudspeaker on the main road blared the names of the dozens of dignitaries in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the local B.N.P. leader, Ariful Islam Arif, took his turn at the mic on a crowded stage decked out in flowers, he got emotional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI missed this for seven years because I was in jail,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Saif Hasnat<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/01\/world\/asia\/bangladesh-politics.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around sunset during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, something remarkable happens in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. 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