BMC Results: 25% winners face criminal charges, 79% crorepatis — Who’s the richest, who’s the poorest?

Nearly one in four winning candidates in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) 2026 polls have declared criminal cases against themselves, while close to four-fifths are crorepatis, according to an analysis by Election Watchdog, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR, which studied affidavits of all 227 winning candidates, said 54 winners, or 24 per cent,…

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Bangladesh Elections: Tarique Rahman’s BNP heads for landslide, ‘two-thirds majority’, declares TV

Bangladesh Elections: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is all set to secure a landslide victory in the South Asian nation’s general elections, as counting progressed, TV channels declared on Friday. The BNP win would mean its chairman, Tarique Rahman, who spent 17 years in self-imposed exile, would become the nation’s next prime minister. The elections…

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