In the 13th National Parliament elections, Mirza Abbas, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate for Dhaka-8, secured a decisive win with nearly 59,000 votes. However, he has raised allegations of electoral manipulation, claiming that his main rival, Nasiruddin Patwari of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), benefited from “vote engineering” in the constituency. On Friday, 13 […]

The Jamaat-e-Islami party has publicly voiced dissatisfaction regarding the announcement process of the 13th National Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. The statement was issued on Friday, 13 February, at 8:30 a.m. through the party’s verified Facebook page. In its formal post, the party first extended gratitude to the nation. It read: “Dear citizens, we sincerely thank […]

  Following a decisive victory in Bangladesh’s 13th national parliamentary elections, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Chairman, Tarique Rahman, have received warm congratulations from leaders in neighbouring India. Notably, Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, extended her felicitations via the social media platform X, addressing Tarique Rahman as “brother” and conveying her […]

M A Kaiyum, a candidate in the Thirteenth National Parliamentary Election, has publicly questioned the credibility of the outcome in the Dhaka-11 constituency, asking how a contender unable to appoint polling agents at every voting centre could secure a substantial number of votes. Kaiyum, who contested the seat under the sheaf of paddy symbol representing […]

The defeated candidate of the Dhaka-14 from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Sanzida Islam Tuli, has formally alleged widespread irregularities in the recent parliamentary poll and called for the suspension of the declared result, along with a fresh election. On Friday afternoon (12 February), Ms Tuli visited the Election Commission headquarters in Agargaon, Dhaka, where […]