Two polling centres posted a hundred percent voter turnout each in Sunday’s election, while two others recorded a 98 percent turnout, according to Election Commission’s centre-wise data.
Five Canadian MPs, who are members of the Canada-Bangladesh Parliamentary Friendship Group, have congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on winning a fifth term in office
All the candidates who won from their respective constituencies in the 12th national election on January 7 have completed taking their oath of office as members of parliament today
Canada has expressed its disappointment that the electoral process in the January 7 parliamentary election has fallen short of the principles of democracy and freedom upon which Bangladesh was founded
Newly elected MPs of the ruling Awami League took the oath of office this morning
Bangladesh has to maintain a balanced relationship with all five major centres from a trade point of view.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may bank on her party’s core ranks while forming the new cabinet tomorrow evening.
EU High Representative Josep Borrell, on behalf of the EU, in a statement today said they welcome the agreement of the Bangladesh authorities to make public the upcoming report and recommendations of the EU Election Expert Mission
The BNP today said the general election held on January 7 was a "black day for the people of the country", claiming that 95 percent of voters gave a "red card" to the Awami League
Noor bagged 1,19,339 votes while his nearest rival independent candidate Joynal Abedin secured 15,684 votes
Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has been elected unofficially from Rangpur 6 constituency.
The opposition leader of the parliament got 81,861 with plough symbol. His nearest rival independent candidate Anwara Islam Rani with eagle symbol got 23,326 votes
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today congratulated the voters for boycotting the national elections
She bagged 2,49,965 votes in her constituency while her nearest rival M Nizam Uddin Lascar from Bangladesh Supreme Party secured 469 votes
Anisul bagged 2,20,667 votes while his nearest candidate Shaheen Khan from National Peoples Party with mango symbol secured only 6,583 votes
The BCB president got 198,155 votes with boat symbol
The AL chief also instructed the partymen not to engage in any kind of violence or conflict
Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) allegedly cast multiple votes for the "boat" symbol after forcibly entering the Curzon Hall polling centre at Dhaka University today
The presiding officer of Jhalakathi’s Nalchity upazila has cancelled 54 ballots, alleging that local Magar union parishad (UP) Chairman Md Shahin Hossain forcibly took those ballot papers from the assistant presiding officer and stuffed them into the box
