{"id":12563,"date":"2025-08-21T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:38:04","slug":"pr-system-not-suitable-in-bangladesh-context-nazrul-islam-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12563","title":{"rendered":"PR system not suitable in Bangladesh context: Nazrul Islam Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ET Desk:<\/strong> BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan (August 20) said that holding elections under the proportional representation (PR) system is &#8220;unreasonable&#8221; in the present political context of Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The call for elections through PR is an illogical demand by some political parties and efforts are being made to impose it on the people without their consent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The BNP leader made the remarks while briefing reporters after a joint meeting at the party&#8217;s Nayapaltan central office marking BNP&#8217;s founding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Nazrul questioned the clarity of the proposal, saying, &#8220;What is PR? Has anyone explained the method to the people? Have we asked them? Go to Keraniganj or anywhere else-tell people that the system they have known so far will be replaced. They will no longer vote for a candidate of their area but for a party, which will then nominate MPs. There will be no specific representative for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that public opinion must be taken into account before considering such a change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if all political parties agree on PR, elections cannot be held under this system without amending the constitution. Only an elected parliament can bring such a change,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan (August 20) said that holding elections under the proportional representation (PR) system is &#8220;unreasonable&#8221; in the present political context of Bangladesh. &#8220;The call for elections through PR is an illogical demand by some political parties and efforts are being made to impose it on the people without their consent,&#8221; he said. The BNP leader made the remarks while briefing reporters after a joint meeting at the party&#8217;s Nayapaltan central office marking BNP&#8217;s founding anniversary. Nazrul questioned the clarity of the proposal,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12565,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions\/12565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}