00:00NCP, NCP, NCP. Good, good, good. Like it, like, like.
00:13The NCP is the National Citizen Party.
00:16Last year's student protest leaders formed the party to capitalise on the uprising
00:21and stop the old way of politics taking hold again.
00:26In this car is the convener of the party, Nahid Islam.
00:31And as you can see, he's just being treated like a total rock star.
00:41On the other side of the car, we have Tasnim Jara,
00:44who's also one of the key members of the National Citizen Party.
00:48Hi, Tasnim!
00:57If you ever wondered if the spirit of last year's protests had died off,
01:03I think this makes it pretty clear that it hasn't.
01:06No, no, no, no!
01:08TASNAN JARA!
01:1230-year-old Tasnim Jara is already a famous face in Bangladesh.
01:17a famous face in Bangladesh. While working as a doctor at Cambridge in the UK, she started
01:22posting health videos online and now has 12 million social media followers.
01:30After watching the protests from afar, Tasna made a massive call and moved back home.
01:36So I got a call from the student leaders who led the movement and they were trying to form
01:45a political pressure group which would hold political parties to account. So we're trying
01:49to connect everybody who are committed to this journey of making Bangladesh 2.0, Second
01:57Republic or whatever you might want to call it, where the state is accountable to its citizens
02:03and upholds everybody's rights and does not kill or maim its citizens with impurity.
02:11We felt that we needed to form a political party to have a seat at the table and speak
02:18about the reforms that we felt that people really wanted.
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