All eyes were on the performance of Nahid Islam, one of the prominent faces of the student movement, and his party in the 13th parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. When the election results came, Naheed Islam was successful in winning the election, but his party had a bad situation in the election. Nahid Islam is among those leaders who led the ‘anti-discrimination’ student movement against the Awami League government of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in July last year.
Won the election from Dhaka-11 seat
Nahid Islam has won from Dhaka-11 constituency. Nahid got 93,872 votes. His nearest rival was Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate MA Qayyum, who got 91,833 votes. Nahid Islam won by a margin of 2,039 votes. Voting was held in Dhaka-11 seat at 163 polling stations, including postal ballots. There are a total of 4,39,075 voters in this constituency, out of which 1,96,370 voted. A total of 3,517 votes were declared invalid, leaving 1,92,853 valid votes.
Nahid Islam had formed his own party
Nahid Islam had joined the interim government formed in Bangladesh as an information advisor. Later he resigned from the cabinet. Nahid Islam had formed the National Citizen Party (NCP). In the parliamentary elections, National Citizen Party had formed an alliance with Jamaat-e-Islam and contested on 30 seats. However, the performance of the party was nothing special. NCP had boasted of contesting the elections alone without forming an alliance with any party, but as the elections approached, all the equations changed and the party contested the elections in alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islam, on which it boasted of never trusting.
Accused of fraud in elections
NCP spokesperson and party’s Central Election Management Committee Chairman Asif Mahmood Shojib Bhuiyan, while addressing a press conference in Dhaka on February 13 (Friday) morning, alleged rigging and fraud in many seats in Dhaka. NCP spokesperson and chairman of the party’s Central Election Management Committee Asif Mahmood Shojeeb Bhuiyan said, “Psychological pressure and administrative manipulation were being used to change the results, especially in constituencies where top leaders of the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance had contested.”
BNP’s bumper victory
Tariq Rahman-led Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) alliance has won 213+ seats out of 299 seats. It is almost clear that Tariq Rahman will be the next Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also posted on Twitter congratulating Tariq Rehman on his victory and expressed his desire to strengthen relations together and pursue common development goals.
