Taznuva Jabin, a joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and the party’s nominated candidate for Dhaka-17, resigned from the NCP on Sunday, denouncing its emerging seat-sharing arrangement with Jamaat-e-Islami and alleging it was engineered through a “planned” and “trust-breaking” process.
In a lengthy post on her verified Facebook page at 12:35 p.m., Jabin wrote she would not contest the upcoming national election and would return donations she had received from supporters, detailing refund steps later. “I cannot even die after swallowing this,” she said, arguing the alliance contradicts NCP’s stated “middle-path” and reformist politics and claiming decisions were pushed to the last moment to box candidates out of independent runs.
Her resignation deepens a widening internal rift as the NCP moves toward an electoral understanding with Jamaat. Senior NCP figures Tasnim Jara and Mir Arshadul Haque quit earlier, publicly opposing the tie-up. Jabin asserted that, after issuing 125 nominations nationwide, party leaders struck an understanding to vacate dozens of seats for allies, disenfranchising NCP nominees; she also alleged shifting expectations that NCP activists would campaign for Jamaat in other constituencies.
Framing her move as a matter of principle and “trust,” Jabin contended that the process violated internal mandates and reduced the party’s distinct identity at birth. She said she has left the NCP, not politics, and vowed to continue organizing for a “Bangladesh-first, middle-path” platform outside the party. The NCP leadership did not immediately respond publicly in her post to the claims she made.