Dhaka, Nov. 21 -- For more than a decade, Tarique Rahman has been one of Bangladesh's most polarising political figures - admired by supporters as a visionary organiser capable of reshaping a battered democracy, and vilified by opponents as a symbol of a political order they sought to erase.

But in the months following the 2024 uprising and the dramatic fall of Sheikh Hasina's long authoritarian rule, Rahman's name has re-entered Bangladesh's political imagination with renewed force.

Now 60, the exiled Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader is once again at the center of a national conversation: What role will he play in the country's next political era? And can a figure forced into exile since 2008 become the principal architect of ...