{"id":69860,"date":"2025-03-05T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/building-a-second-republic-students-who-led-bangladesh-revolution-launch-political-party"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:01:10","slug":"building-a-second-republic-students-who-led-bangladesh-revolution-launch-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69860","title":{"rendered":"Building a \u2018second republic\u2019: students who led Bangladesh revolution launch political party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jatiya Nagorik party, popular among the country\u2019s vast youth, could shift electoral landscape but needs to show democratic, secular credentials<\/p>\n<p>In the shadow of Bangladesh\u2019s parliament building, crowds poured into the streets, many adorned in the red and green of the national flag. Just six months ago, these same roads had been a battleground littered with bullet casings and bodies, as students fought against armed police to bring down the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<p>This time, students who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">successfully overthrew the prime minster<\/a> were here for a different purpose: to launch their Jatiya Nagorik or National Citizens\u2019 party (NCP) in the presence of thousands of supporters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/building-a-second-republic-students-who-led-bangladesh-revolution-launch-political-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jatiya Nagorik party, popular among the country\u2019s vast youth, could shift electoral landscape but needs to show democratic, secular credentialsIn the shadow of Bangladesh\u2019s parliament building, crowds poured into the streets, many adorned in the red an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69860\/revisions\/69861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}