Bangladesh Candidature as the Oic Secretary General: Internal and External Factors for Defeat in the Oic Top Post Race

Bangladesh became a member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (previously Organization of Islamic Conference) in 1974. Bangladesh, since its entry in the OIC, had been becoming more and more involved in the OIC activities and making unique and fruitful contributions in some issues and crises of the Muslim Ummah through the OIC. It has also played a very vital role in the OIC and its organs holding important posts and offices including the Assistant Secretary General for a number of terms. But unfortunately, Bangladesh has not held the position of Secretary General despite yet being the second largest Muslim country (now third largest). Bangladesh sought to secure the position of the Secretary General four times namely in 1979, 1983, 2000 and in 2004 and geared up all her efforts to win the election. But she had to withdraw candidature every time on political consideration. Some internal and external factors were responsible for the defeat in the OIC. In this paper an analysis on the internal and external factors responsible behind the failure of the candidate are of Bangladesh do the OIC top post contest will be explared.