Tarique Rahman is widely expected to emerge as a prime ministerial candidate after the February vote, with polls showing the BNP is the frontrunner.
Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh’s interim leader, has banned Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League from political activities.
Rahman echoed Yunus’s claim that the Awami League is “fascist” and said the BNP was ready to form a government with other parties, including a new faction led by students who were on the front lines of last year’s uprising.
“We will welcome them into politics,” he said. “They are young, they have a future.”