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Bangladesh did not win any medals in the competition. Football: Dhaka Abahani Limited won the Premier League. Cricket: Dhaka Gladiators won the inaugural edition of BPL. In March, Bangladesh hosted the 2012 Asia Cup which featured the four Test-playing nations from Asia: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Pakistan won the tournament by ...
Scene from a polling booth in Bangladesh. Bangladesh elects on national level a legislature with one house or chamber. The unicameral Jatiyo Sangshad, meaning national parliament, has 350 members of which 300 members are directly elected through a national election for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies while 50 memberships are reserved for the women who are selected by the ruling ...
The second general elections were held in Bangladesh on 18 February 1979, under President Ziaur Rahman.The Bangladesh Nationalist Party won the election; They won 207 out of 300 seats in the Jatiya Sangsad.The total vote was 51.2%ред In this election, Awami League (Malek) won 39 seats, Awami League (Mizan) 2, JSD 8, Muslim League and Democratic League 20, NAP (Muzaffar) 1, Bangladesh National ...
Bangladesh’s opposition political party said it was working towards holding general elections by December, following a meeting with interim government chief Muhammad Yunus. The caretaker ...
The elections were criticized by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and the United Nations. [4] Sheikh Hasina was sworn in for a third tenure as prime minister. In 2015 and 2016, Bangladesh saw increasing assassinations targeting minorities and secularists , including Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Western and Asian expatriates ...
Utility poles across Bangladesh are festooned with campaign flyers carrying pictures of general election candidates, most of them from the ruling party, as an opposition boycott looks set to usher ...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman This is a summary of the electoral history of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who served as the first presidents and second prime minister of Bangladesh from April 1971 to August 1975. Summary Year Constituency Party Votes % Result 1954 Gopalganj South Muslim United Front 19,362 N/A Won 1970 NE-111 Dacca-VIII [a] All-Pakistan Awami League 164,071 57.78 Won NE-112 Dacca-IX [b ...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and its allies boycotted the election, and voter turnout was a low 41.8%. While election day was ...