The National Citizen Party (NCP), a prominent student-led political entity that emerged from the Students Against Discrimination movement responsible for the 2024 July Uprising which forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and exile, has been engulfed in a severe internal crisis over its proposed electoral alliance with the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party ahead of the February 2026 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh.

Approximately 30 central committee leaders, led by joint member-secretary Mushfiq Us Saleheen as the first signatory, submitted a detailed memorandum titled “Principled objections to a potential alliance in light of the accountability of the July Uprising and party values” to NCP convener Nahid Islam on the night of December 27, 2025, vehemently opposing any partnership and warning of irreversible damage to the party's ideological foundation and public credibility.

The document sharply criticized Jamaat-e-Islami's historical opposition to Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War, including allegations of collaboration in atrocities and genocide alongside Pakistani forces, as well as recent activities by its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir accused of infiltration, sabotage, misinformation campaigns, and attempts to discredit the NCP during the anti-Hasina protests.

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High-profile resignations underscored the depth of the rift, with senior joint member-secretary and physician Tasnim Jara stepping down on December 27 evening to contest independently from Dhaka-9 constituency, followed by founding joint convener and doctor Tajnuva Jabeen announcing her departure the next day, expressing profound mental agony over what she described as a meticulously engineered political strategy that left her no honorable alternative.

Despite widespread opposition—particularly strong among female leaders including Samata Sharmin, Nahid Sarwar Niva, and Nusrat Tabassum—and the memorandum's prediction of disillusionment among youth activists and supporters committed to secular, reformist politics, reports from outlets like The Daily Star indicate that seat-sharing negotiations with Jamaat are progressing rapidly, potentially finalizing within days after earlier talks with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party collapsed, positioning the NCP for electoral relevance in a fluid post-Hasina landscape increasingly dominated by BNP-Jamaat rivalry.

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