There is no party like the breakfast party for the ambitious Bangladesh leaders

About sunset during the month of Islamic fasting of Ramadan, something great happens in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka. The streets in this city, which includes more than 10 million people, known for its heavy bustle and suffocation, turns into quiet and empty.

But for the political parties, which know well the persuasive forces of the entire stomachs, the sunset is its high time.

Break breakfast, where the believers break fast, I watched closely until the end of Ramadan last week for the direction that Bangladesh could take after that The overthrow of its authoritarian leader Last summer.

Who was attending any party? Who was sitting next to whom? In the political vacuum in Bangladesh, the answers to these questions provided evidence of how to form new alliances and even the direction of changing geopolitical winds.

To measure the political temperature, we got ourselves to one.

He was hosted in a roof restaurant by Juno Odekar Parish, a small party born from a previous wave of student protests in 2018, before last year that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The party has made arrangements for 600 people and 900 back. Panels of fried snacks and sweets are passed. Checks kept yogurt drinks flowing.

There was one thing that no one thought: How did you get hundreds of people who did not eat or wet for 15 hours to the upper floor? Certainly not by climbing eight trains from the stairs.

The crowd, which is filled in the small hallway drawn like “Night Night”, tried to press one elevator with a capacity of 18 people.

The elevator operator – which is still something in this part of the world – had a difficult job. A cute man with a red beard in red, sat on plastic stools of buttons. He loaded each trip accurately from the owner of the Grape Store, which led to the discharge of the objects one by one, until the elevator was no longer more than a capacity.

On top, the restaurant rose with people.

Dozens of tables have been distinguished for political parties or for reporters. Most of them were men, while spraying women.

Sanjita Haqa, leader of the young party in the young party, said that she attended five breakfast parties in the first two weeks of Ramadan.

“Every wing, every part of our packages has the breakfast party – the youth wing, the work wing, the human rights wing,” she said.

From the platform in front of it, the speech was directed after speaking to the guests of fasting and more than that in dozens of cameras. The topic was clear: the country needs elections.

The timing of these elections is at the heart of the political gap. Some want it immediately. Others want reforms first, to avoid the repetition of previous forged sounds.

Control of news, of course, gossip at breakfast parties, was the discomfort between the Bangladesh Army and The interim government that the student drives.

Students are increasingly doubting the commander of the army, General Wakel Zaman. Some believe that the general, a relative of Mrs. Hasina, the obedient prime minister, is trying to open a space to revive her ousted party.

Others suspect that the army commander is pressuring the early elections because it led to an agreement with Mrs. Hasina’s long opposition, the National Party, Bangladesh, or BNP

On the other hand, the leaders of this party suspect that students use the influence on the government and the streets, to delay the elections in order to buy time and organization as a political force themselves.

Another big topic in Dhaka is the place where India – the giant neighbor who has long supported Mrs. Hasina and gave her her shelter – in all political calm.

New Delhi has suspended the fall of Mrs. Hasina on a large scale about what he called a plot between BNP and Jamaat-E-Slaami, the main Islamic party, drawing them both.

But in a sign of changing times, Indian diplomats appeared in breakfast gatherings for both parties.

“The very crowded time,” said Mia Golaam Parawar, the Secretary -General of the Gamma, whose schedule during Ramadan was about breakfast. “We feel that this is the high time.”

He boasted that 39 diplomatic missions were represented in the Iftar Party in a group.

Gono Odhikar’s event on the surface, a local branch of BNP was hosting its breakfast under a tent in the school square.

People sat on round tables while Beriani and soda boxes were discharged from a truck. Speakers on the main road disturbed the names of dozens of prominent characters in the audience.

When the local BNP leader, ARIFUL Islam Arif, took his role in the microphone on the crowded stage in the flowers, he became emotional.

He said: “I missed this for seven years because I was in prison.”

Good sword The reports contributed.