Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- The National Citizen Party (NCP) has laid the blame squarely at the door of the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and the Awami League for what it calls decades of "political failure" that have led to repeated uprisings in Bangladesh.

Speaking at a discussion marking Jail Killing Day on Tuesday at the party's temporary office in Dhaka's Banglamotor, its leaders criticised all three parties for "failing" to build a democratic state after independence.

Although the NCP did not directly address the 1975 jail killings, the event -- titled "The Inevitable Outcome of Post-Liberation State-Building Failures: November 1975" -- focused on the political events that followed.

The party is founded by the Anti-discrimination Student Movement an...