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BNP led by Tarique Rahman set for massive win in Bangladesh elections

BNP led by Tarique Rahman set for massive win in Bangladesh elections

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Centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by Tarique Rahman was going for an emphatic victory in the Bangladesh elections, with the Bangladesh TV and print organisations saying that they were leading in more than 200 seats in the 300-seat parliament. This means that they will be able to form the government with a two-third majority, if the official results endorse these projections, and then Rahman would not need the support of smaller parties to support his agenda in the parliament. Jamaat-e-Islami was leading in more than 60 seats — making them the second largest party and poised to become the main Opposition party in Bangladesh. According to media projections on Friday morning, the “Yes” vote in the referendum was ahead of the “No” votes. The Election Commission has not announced the results yet. As the counting proceeded throughout Thursday night and continued till Friday morning, it became clear that the people opted for the mainstream political party over the new parties. However, the rise of the Islamist party, Jamaat, cannot be underestimated. These are the …

Awami League says Bangladesh interim govt incapable of holding fair elections| India News

Awami League says Bangladesh interim govt incapable of holding fair elections| India News

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New Delhi: Bangladesh’s interim government is incapable of ensuring fair elections and has barred former premier Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League from participating in the upcoming polls because it fears the party’s popularity, senior Awami League leaders said on Saturday. Awami League leaders Hasan Mahmud and Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury criticised a report presented by the UN Human Rights Office on deaths and violence during protests in July–August 2024. Besides accusing the caretaker administration led by Muhammad Yunus of failing to protect Bangladesh’s minorities and trampling on human rights, Awami League leaders Hasan Mahmud and Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury criticised a report presented by the UN Human Rights Office on deaths and violence during protests in July–August 2024 as biased and one-sided. This was the first time senior Awami League leaders addressed the media in New Delhi since the fall of Hasina’s government following widespread student-led protests in 2024. Hasina has lived in self-exile in New Delhi since she fled Bangladesh, and many Awami League leaders are currently in India or Europe. Mahmud, who served as foreign minister, …

‘Biggest Strategic Challenge Since 1971’: House Panel Flags Islamists, Pak-China Role In Bangladesh | India News

‘Biggest Strategic Challenge Since 1971’: House Panel Flags Islamists, Pak-China Role In Bangladesh | India News

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Last Updated:December 18, 2025, 17:25 IST Drawing on testimony from non-governmental experts, the committee said the challenge was no longer existential but had become deeper, structural and long-term. The relations between India and Bangladesh came under strain after the interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus came to power in Dhaka. (PTI/File) A Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs warned that the evolving political situation in Bangladesh constitutes India’s biggest strategic challenge since 1971, citing the re-emergence of Islamist forces, a shifting domestic political landscape and the growing influence of China and Pakistan. The report, tabled in Parliament by the Shashi Tharoor–chaired panel, draws on testimony from non-governmental experts and government officials, noting that the challenge for India is no longer existential but deeper and long-term in nature. Bangladesh Is India’s Long-Term Strategic Test The committee noted that unlike 1971, the current situation in Bangladesh does not pose an immediate existential threat to India. However, it cautioned that the ongoing political transition and strategic realignment in Dhaka present enduring challenges that could reshape India’s security and …

India Should Extradite Hasina For Crimes Against Humanity; Issue Won’t Affect Bilateral Ties: Yunus Aide | Exclusive | World News

India Should Extradite Hasina For Crimes Against Humanity; Issue Won’t Affect Bilateral Ties: Yunus Aide | Exclusive | World News

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Last Updated:November 19, 2025, 23:06 IST Shafiqul Alam also said that with the Awami League banned, voters will seek alternative candidates in next year’s Bangladesh elections Bangladesh’s former PM Sheikh Hasina (L) and interim leader Muhammad Yunus (R). (File image: AFP) The fragile diplomatic landscape between India and Bangladesh is facing severe strain after the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Dhaka delivered a verdict convicting former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and sentencing her to death. The interim government in Dhaka has intensified pressure on New Delhi, formally demanding the immediate extradition of Hasina, whom it labels a “mass murderer” with “blood on her hands” for alleged crimes against humanity. Citing a binding 2013 treaty and an independent UN probe detailing direct orders for lethal force on protesters, Dhaka has indicated that a refusal to hand over the former premier will be considered an “unfriendly act”. Despite this, Bangladesh’s chief adviser maintains the country seeks a good relationship with India, while vowing to proceed with free and fair elections. Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to chief adviser …

Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League Officially Banned Under Revised Anti-Terror Law

Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League Officially Banned Under Revised Anti-Terror Law

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Dhaka: Bangladesh on Monday officially disbanded deposed premier Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League under an overnight revised anti-terrorism law, two days after Muhammad Yunus’s interim government slapped a ban on its “activities” under the previous version of the law. “A gazette notification has been issued in this regard today,” home adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam told a media briefing on Monday. A home ministry official said as per the notification, the Awami League and its affiliated organisations were banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2025 until Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) completed the trial of its leaders and activists. He said Section 18 of the revised law empowered the government to declare any “entity” or organisation alongside an individual if they were found involved in terrorism based on reasonable grounds. The original Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 did not have the provision of banning the “entity”. The Election Commission (EC), meanwhile, said it scrapped the Awami League’s registration as well, disqualifying the party from contesting polls. “Today, the Ministry of Home Affairs banned the activities of Bangladesh …

Fall Of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League

Fall Of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League

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New Delhi: The party that once led Bangladesh to liberation now finds itself outlawed on the very soil it helped set free. The Awami League, once the torchbearer of Bangladesh’s independence, has been banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act by the country’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus. Citing threats to national security and an ongoing war crimes investigation, the administration has outlawed all party activities. Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party, which ruled the country for over a decade until her ouster in a mass uprising last year, has been accused of orchestrating violent crackdowns during the July-August 2024 student-led protests that killed close to 1,500 protestors. The Awami League Born out of discontent with the ruling West Pakistani elite, the Awami League was founded on June 23, 1949, in Dhaka. Then called the ‘East Pakistan Awami Muslim League’, it was a breakaway faction of the Muslim League. The party emerged as a secular, progressive voice for the Bengali population in then East Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a young student activist, became one of its …

Bangladesh fumes at Sheikh Hasina’s ‘incendiary’ remarks, asks India to stop her | Latest News India

Bangladesh fumes at Sheikh Hasina’s ‘incendiary’ remarks, asks India to stop her | Latest News India

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NEW DELHI: Bangladesh on Thursday lodged a strong protest against what it said were “false and fabricated” statements by former premier Sheikh Hasina, currently in self-exile in New Delhi, and sought “appropriate measures” to stop her from making “incendiary” remarks on social media. Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina (ANI FILE PHOTO) Bangladesh’s foreign ministry handed over a protest note to India’s acting high commissioner in Dhaka a day after Hasina made a speech on her Awami League party’s social media channels during which she accused interim government chief Muhammad Yunus of conspiring to kill her and her sister Sheikh Rehana. There was no official word from the Indian side on the development. After stepping down in the face of nationwide protests last August, Hasina fled to India. Her presence in the country has emerged as an irritant in bilateral ties and the interim government in Dhaka has often bristled over her speeches on social media, during which she has attacked Yunus. A statement from the foreign ministry in Dhaka said it lodged a strong …

Bangladesh’s interim govt says it won’t allow ‘fascist’ Awami League to hold rally | News Today News

Bangladesh’s interim govt says it won’t allow ‘fascist’ Awami League to hold rally | News Today News

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Terming Awami League as “fascist”, Bangladesh’s interim government on Saturday said it will not permit the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s party to hold Sunday’s planned rally. Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam in a Facebook post said that the interim government won’t tolerate any violence or any attempt to break the law and order situation in the country. “The Awami League in its current form is a fascist party. There is no way this fascist party will be allowed to hold protests in Bangladesh,” he said. Alam further cautioned that “anyone who would try to hold rally, gathering and processions by taking orders from the mass murderer and dictator Sheikh Hasina will face full force of the law enforcing agencies”. Alam’s statement followed a call from the Awami League on its verified Facebook page, urging supporters to gather at Shaheed Noor Hossain Chattar, or Zero Point, in Gulistan on Sunday to protest what they described as “misrule.” “Our protest is against the deprivation of the rights of the people of the country; …

Top Bangladesh Leader Who Reportedly Fled, Found Dead In Meghalaya

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Guwahati: A top leader of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party, Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, who had reportedly fled the country after her government collapsed, was found dead in Meghalaya, not far from the Bangladesh border, Meghalaya police said in a press release today. Police sources added that his postmortem report suggests that he had been strangled. Meghalaya police said the semi-decomposed body was found inside a betel-nut plantation in East Jaintia Hills’ Dona Bhoi village on August 26. The area is 1.5 km from the India- Bangladesh border. The body was identified by the passport he was carrying, sources said. Police sources added that the postmortem report said he died because of strangulation — “the cause of the death is asphyxia caused by throttling”. The body has been sent for forensic analysis, sources said. There were also multiple lacerations on the body. There were abrasions and bruises on the forehead, “which could indicate a struggle by the victim,” the report added, said police sources. Panna was a former general secretary of …

Bangladesh’s Development Not Possible Without Good Ties With India: Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud

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Last Updated: May 13, 2024, 23:55 IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first world leader to congratulate Hasina on her re-election. (Image: Reuters File) Bangladesh’s development is not possible without good relations with India as both countries share a common border of several thousand kilometers, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud said on Monday. Bangladesh’s development is not possible without good relations with India as both countries share a common border of several thousand kilometers, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud said on Monday. Hasan, who is also the joint general secretary of the ruling Awami League party led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, made the remarks while responding to a question regarding a failed campaign by some groups on social media asking people to boycott Indian products. ”Our development is not possible without maintaining good relations with the country (India) with which we have a common border of several thousand kilometers on three sides,” he told the reporters here. Mahmud added it would be difficult as well to maintain peace and stability in Bangladesh without good relations …