In a trend that suggests the party's influence is spreading, if not growing in absolute terms, the fastest growing membership — compared with the data leaked last year — are in areas outside the party's current heartlands. The data also appears to shows a party in a constant state of flux with many supporters allowing their memberships to lapse each year.
We believe their turnover rate is far higher than any other political party. He said that moles who operate inside the BNP on behalf of Searchlight have said the party's electoral success in the European elections in June, as well as the recent spurt in media coverage, have not resulted in a surge of support. Analysis after the last year's leak, he continued, showed that the BNP's membership consisted of mainly middle-aged white men who worked in semi-skilled jobs. Membership lists can, however, give a skewed impression of the BNP's supporters and voters.
Lowles said recent falls in the BNP's share of the vote at council byelections, including a seat in Barnsley last week, indicated that party's increased national profile in recent weeks as a result of Griffin's forthcoming appearance on Question Time was not translating into electoral success. This article is more than 12 years old. Typical member is named David or John and has a job. Rowe had helped him write a letter they distributed to 1, households in Marsden, a mostly white suburb sprawled across a hill above the former mill town of Nelson.
Over the next three years the party won 55 district council seats, including 12 in Barking and Dagenham , plus its first county council seat in Lancashire and another on the London assembly.
In the streets where he lives, voters do not appear to have changed their minds on immigration. The estate, a BNP stronghold, was once plagued by flytippers. Unlike his colleagues elsewhere who were invariably booted out after one term, Parker did put the hours in, concedes Stephenson.
And yet the local Conservatives, currently in opposition, have concluded that it is fruitless to attack him as a racist. Sources describe it as the main opposition party Al Jazeera 5 Jan. Sources further describe the party as "center-right" ibid. According to the BNP's Constitution, as posted on the party's website, their objectives include: increasing democracy through "mass unity based on Bangladeshi nationalism"; protecting Bangladesh from "colonialism"; advancing economic development through a "free market economy"; and "preserv[ing] the…human values of the Bangladeshi people through the teaching of Islam" BNP n.
Sources state that the BNP were elected to government from and from ibid. A monitoring report by Human Rights Watch on pre and post-election violence describes the relationship between the ruling AL and the BNP as "longstanding, bitter, personal, and [which] often turns violent" Human Rights Watch Apr. There is an Executive Committee elected by the members of district committees. The district committees are responsible for organizing committees at the lower level … at the unions and villages within the relevant district.
BNP n. For further information on the structure of the party, including information on the Executive Committee's structure, roles and responsibilities, see Response to Information Request BGD Any Bangladeshi citizen of the age of 18 years or above can be primary member of this party.
The aspirants have to declare adherence to the party's proclamation, constitution and programmes. The application at schedule 1, form 'a' of the constitution will be filled up for primary membership. This form will be available at the party office. No other form will be accepted for membership but when not available, printing of same form will be allowed for application of membership,. If the form is accepted for consideration, identification Schedule 1, Form 'kha' will have to be collected as evidence.
Annual subscription fee after getting membership is 5 [BDT] only. The subscription from the members will be taken by receipt and the receipt will be provided from the party's central office. Every upazila or thana office at its own locality will preserve the list of members of the party. The party's central office in Dhaka will preserve as per rules the total number of members, name of members and their address. Information on the appearance of, and procedures for obtaining membership documents for BNP party members could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints of this Response.
According to a July article in the Dhaka Courier, an English-language news magazine, infighting is spreading within the BNP and there are signs of "factionalism" and defection among the grassroots-level leaders Dhaka Courier 30 July Without providing further detail, according to a July human rights monitoring report by Odhikar, an "organisation of human rights defenders in Bangladesh" that monitors and reports on human rights violations Odhikar 1 July , 2 , between January and June , two people were killed and injured during internal conflicts within the BNP ibid.
The same source further states that the violence was "often linked to criminal activities rather than to political motives" ibid. In July , Odhikar reported that between January and June , one person was killed and 69 injured as a result of intra-party violence within the BNP ibid.
Sources further state that in , a high court panel ruling canceled the electoral registration of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, preventing them from running in the elections The Guardian 1 Aug. The party's Constitution also states that all front organizations require the approval of the chairman of the BNP and that one secretary from each front organization will be included in the national BNP executive committee ibid.
The purpose of front organizations is to support the "implementation of party programs" and as such, front organizations will "formulate [their] own programmes for the aim of creating influence in its own arena and extending the party ideology" ibid. The party's Constitution provides that the following front organizations have "received approval from the chairman":.
According to the party's Constitution, professional groups that "believe in the principles, ideology, objectives and programmes of the party" can be organized to protect their interests as an "associate organization" of the BNP ibid. According to another Bangladeshi newspaper, the Daily Observer, an arrest warrant was issued for Alal in June "in a sabotage case"; the source notes that the court rejected his "time petition" and that he did not appear before the court 23 June Further and corroborating information could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints of this Response.
The Dhaka Tribune, an English-language Bangladeshi newspaper, similarly reports that in December , charges were filed against " leaders and activists of [the] BNP and its youth and student wings" in relation to violent clashes in Bakshibazar ahead of a scheduled court appearance for BNP leader Khaleda Zia 26 Dec. Bangladeshi daily newspaper the New Nation reported in July that, according to several BNP leaders that spoke to the newspaper, many of the former student leaders remained in hiding "to avert arrest" and were quoted in the article as saying that the student wing of the BNP is "the main target of the government, as they play a vital role during movements" 29 July Corroborating information could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints of this Response.
There is a significant overlap between BNP and Ukip voters — both are older, poorer, whiter and more male-dominated than the population as a whole — and Ukip has wooed thousands of former BNP supporters.
The loathing of mainstream politicians has not gone away, even if the BNP is no longer a beneficiary. Photo By Getty. Coming to you daily during COP The NS team Sign up here.
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