Bangladesh, April 8 -- Election analyst Badiul Alam Majumdar on Tuesday cautioned that Bangladesh could face a return to authoritarian tendencies if the political processes and institutional structures that enabled the rise of Sheikh Hasina remain unchanged.

"If you walk the old path, you cannot reach a new destination-this is clear," he said, adding that it appears the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) may be following a similar trajectory.

Badiul Alam made the remarks at a roundtable discussion titled "Why is the implementation of the July National Charter essential?" held at the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) auditorium in Dhaka.

The event was organised by Citizens for Good Governance (SHUJ...