{"id":7109,"date":"2026-01-22T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:06:09","slug":"not-delhi-not-rawalpindi-bangladesh-first-tarique-rahman-rallies-support-in-habiganj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7109","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNot Delhi, Not Rawalpindi\u2014Bangladesh First\u201d: Tarique Rahman Rallies Support in Habiganj"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BNP chairperson Tarique Rahman told a large election rally that his party\u2019s priorities lie solely with Bangladesh, declaring, \u201cNot Delhi, not Rawalpindi\u2014Bangladesh comes first.\u201d Speaking Thursday evening at the proposed upazila parishad field in Shayestaganj, he framed the <strong>February 12<\/strong> national election as a referendum on restoring people\u2019s rule and accelerating national development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Urging supporters to reach polling centers \u201cafter tahajjud,\u201d Rahman warned party workers to remain vigilant against alleged vote-grabbing. He pledged that, if elected, the BNP would govern on principles of justice and vowed programs aimed at self-reliance, including proposed <strong>family cards for women workers\u2014such as tea garden laborers\u2014and agriculture cards for farmers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Criticizing past elections under the Awami League, he said the last 15\u201316 years saw \u201csham polls\u201d that stripped citizens of voting rights and alleged that wealth was siphoned abroad under the banner of development. He also invoked 1971, saying Bangladeshis had \u201calready seen\u201d those who sided against independence, urging voters to back the BNP\u2019s paddy-sheaf symbol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rahman arrived on stage at <strong>5:34 p.m.<\/strong>, performed Maghrib prayers, and spoke for about <strong>28 minutes<\/strong>. Organizers claimed attendance in the hundreds of thousands. The rally was presided over by former MP <strong>Shammi Akter Sifa<\/strong> and featured introductions of BNP candidates from Habiganj\u2019s four constituencies. Speakers included <strong>Dr. Sakhawat Hossain Jiban, Dr. Reza Kibria, G.K. Gaus, S.M. Faisal<\/strong>, and <strong>Ahmad Ali Mukim<\/strong>, with proceedings conducted by district BNP joint secretary <strong>M. Islam Tarafdar Tonu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BNP chairperson Tarique Rahman told a large election rally that his party\u2019s priorities lie solely with Bangladesh, declaring, \u201cNot Delhi, not Rawalpindi\u2014Bangladesh comes first.\u201d Speaking Thursday evening at the proposed upazila parishad field in Shayestaganj, he framed the February 12 national election as a referendum on restoring people\u2019s rule and accelerating national development. Urging supporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}