DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s newly elected parliament convened, with lawmakers taking the oath of office and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairman Tarique Rahman formally sworn in as the country’s prime minister following a decisive election victory last week. Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin administered the oath t...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Tarique Rahman, 60, is set to become Bangladesh’s next prime minister after his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) surged to a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections. He is completing a political comeback that few in the country’s turbulent politics thought possible. For nearly two decades, Rahman lived in self-...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Alongside the vote to decide which party will be governing the country, Bangladesh also voted on whether it wanted to adopt a referendum on a series of government reforms. The Election Commission announced that 48,074,429 voters, or 60.26 percent, supported the reform package, while 22,565,627 voted against it. The r...
DHAKA (MNTV) – While Bangladesh’s Election Commission has yet to formally announce results, unofficial tallies indicate the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is headed for a commanding parliamentary majority that would enable it to govern independently. Various sources are reporting different counts as results continue to emerge. In the...
MNTV News Desk The United States, Pakistan and India have congratulated Bangladesh Nationalist Party for winning February 12 elections. Brent Christensen, the US ambassador to Bangladesh, has congratulated the BNP after it claimed victory in Thursday’s election. “Congratulations to the people of Bangladesh on a successful election and to the B...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday claimed a thumping win in the first elections held since a deadly 2024 uprising, with leader Tarique Rahman poised to become prime minister. Final results are still to come, but the United States was swift to offer its congratulations to Rahman and the BNP [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair early Friday alleged that certain officials linked to the Election Commission were deliberately delaying the announcement of results in several constituencies, reports The Daily Star. “Counting for yesterday’s election and referendum ...
DHAKA/ISTANBUL (AA) – Unofficial results early Friday showed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leading with a majority of seats after millions of Bangladeshis cast their ballots in Thursday’s general election, the first since the 2024 ouster of Sheikh Hasina, according to local media. The BNP is leading with 151 constituencies so fa...
DHAKA (MNTV) – The leader of Jamaat-e-Islami told reporters at his election office in the Dhaka-15 constituency that barring significant irregularities, his party would respect the outcome of Thursday’s elections “whether others accept the results or not,” according to local newspaper The Daily Star. When questioned by ...
DHAKA (MNTV) – Bangladesh’s two major political coalitions each expressed confidence Thursday in securing electoral triumph, even as ballot counting continued across the nation. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party attributed lower-than-expected voter participation to what it characterized as deceptive tactics by a rival political forc...
