BANGLADESH: Ruling party secures landslide poll win

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League (AL) party has won Bangladesh’s parliamentary vote, the country’s election commission has announced, after the main opposition alliance rejected the violence-marred polls. Three-hundred seats were up for grabs in the 350-member parliament, or Jatiya Sangshad, in Sunday’s elections. Another 50 seats are reserved for women. An AL-led coalition won […]

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League (AL) party has won Bangladesh’s parliamentary vote, the country’s election commission has announced, after the main opposition alliance rejected the violence-marred polls.

Three-hundred seats were up for grabs in the 350-member parliament, or Jatiya Sangshad, in Sunday’s elections. Another 50 seats are reserved for women.

An AL-led coalition won a massive 288 seats, while the main opposition alliance dominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured just six.