Dhaka, Nov. 9 -- Prime Minister's Political Assistant Rashed Khan on Monday said the National Citizen Party (NCP) would eventually have to end its political relationship with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for the sake of its political survival, saying such an alliance could not last.

"An arrangement between the NCP and Jamaat can never continue. Sooner or later, the NCP will have to end this relationship. This is necessary for the NCP's political growth," he said in a Facebook post.

Rashed said the NCP should sever ties with Jamaat and focus on reorganising the party if it wanted to establish an independent political identity.

However, if the NCP considered securing a few seats in Parliament its main goal, driven by short-term aspirations...