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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is heading for an overwhelming bulk successful the parliamentary elections successful Bangladesh held since a deadly 2024 uprising.According to the latest trends, Tarique Rahman-led BNP, on with its confederation parties, is starring successful 212 retired of 299 seats successful parliament, portion the Jamaat-e-Islami-led confederation is up successful 70 seats.BNP president Rahman, who has won from some constituencies helium contested — Bogra and Dhaka-17 — would apt instrumentality implicit arsenic the adjacent Prime Minister.Official results person not yet been delivered by the Bangladesh Election Commission, which is expected to contented its announcement connected Friday.Here are the apical developments from the Bangladesh election:‘Not a clip for celebration’Claiming victory, BNP predetermination committee spokesperson Mahdi Amin told reporters the enactment was connected way to triumph astatine slightest two-thirds of seats.“Buoyed by beardown nationalist support, the BNP volition unafraid a two-thirds bulk and signifier the government,” Amin said, adding that enactment main Tarique Rahman had won some seats helium contested.Meanwhile, BNP president Tarique Rahman requested that celebrations beryllium postponed retired of respect for the passing of his mother, Khaleda Zia, earlier the election. The enactment called for prayers for Khaleda Zia aft the Friday congregational prayer.
“This triumph was expected. It is not astonishing that the radical of Bangladesh person placed their spot successful a enactment susceptible of realising the dreams that our younker envisioned during the uprising,” said Salahuddin Ahmed, a elder BNP committee member.“This is not a clip for celebration, arsenic we volition look mounting challenges successful gathering a state escaped from discrimination,” helium added.Jamaat campaigner alleges foul playMeanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami alleged discrepancies successful voting successful definite places.Addressing mediapersons, Khaleduz Zaman, a Jamaat-e-Islami campaigner moving against Tarique Rahman, said, “The concern is not bully due to the fact that without a polling agent, successful a abstracted room, idiosyncratic is sealing the papers.”“It is wholly disappointing. I person seen this successful immoderate places. We were hopeful that Jamaat-e-Islami would triumph the election, but if this happens, however tin we person hopes,” helium added.Peaceful polls?BNP workers spent the full nighttime extracurricular enactment offices.“We volition articulation the nation-building effort led by Tarique Rahman,” Md Fazlur Rahman, 45, told AFP. “Over the past 17 years, we person suffered a lot, faced aggregate politically motivated cases and mislaid a mill I owned.”However, according to constabulary reports, governmental clashes killed 5 radical and injured much than 600 during campaigning.Polling time was mostly peaceful, according to the Election Commission, which reported lone “a fewer insignificant disruptions”.‘Must stay agreed successful the greater nationalist interest’Chief advisor Muhammad Yunus, who volition measurement down erstwhile the caller authorities takes power, urged each sides to enactment calm.“We whitethorn person differences of opinion, but we indispensable stay agreed successful the greater nationalist interest,” helium said.The 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize victor has led Bangladesh since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina successful August 2024.His medication barred her Bangladesh Awami League from contesting the polls.After casting his vote, Yunus said the state had “ended the nightmare and begun a caller dream”.‘Well-planned farce’The Bangladesh Awami League rejected the parliamentary predetermination arsenic a “well-planned farce,” claiming that the vote, conducted without the party’s participation, disregarded antiauthoritarian norms and the Constitution.In a connection posted connected its X grip aft polling concluded and counting began, the enactment expressed gratitude to citizens — including mothers, sisters and number communities — for rejecting what it called a “voter-less” election.The Awami League alleged that the farcical polling began connected the evening of 11 February with seizure of polling centres, gunfire, organisation of cash, vote-buying, stamping of ballots and agents signing effect sheets without elector participation.By 11 americium connected 12 February, conscionable 3 and a fractional hours into voting, lone 14.96% of eligible voters had reportedly participated, according to the Election Commission, portion galore polling stations — peculiarly successful Dhaka and different large areas — had nary voters astatine all.The enactment further claimed that successful the days starring up to the election, its supporters, voters and number communities faced continuous intimidation, arrests and attacks aimed astatine forcing compliance.
