Dhaka, Aug.31.– Academics, researchers, and activists on Saturday said that institutional and legal reforms in the post-uprising era would not sustain unless the political parties institutionalise participatory democracy with youth engagement.
They made the remarks while addressing the Bengal Delta Conference 2025 organised by a Dhaka-based think tank, Dacca Institute of Research and Analytics, at a hotel in the capital.
The two-day conference, themed ‘Bangladesh at crossroads: rethinking politics, economics, and geopolitical strategy’, began on Friday. The last day of the conference featured seven panel discussions and five paper presentation sessions.
In a session titled New political dialogue: transformation in South Asia politics, panelists from Bangladesh said that the country’s political party culture was widely marred with elitism and oligarchy.
Badiul Alam Majumder, a member of the National Consensus Commission, said ...
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