{"id":307617,"date":"2018-12-31T05:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307617"},"modified":"2018-12-31T05:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:09:33","slug":"bangladesh-sheikh-hasina-wins-by-landslide-opposition-rejects-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bangladesh-sheikh-hasina-wins-by-landslide-opposition-rejects-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina wins by landslide, opposition rejects polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307601 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/hasina-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hasina-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hasina-341x420.jpg 341w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hasina.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s ruling party won the general election with a landslide majority, the Election Commission said early on Monday while the opposition rejected the polls and claimed the votes as rigged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An alliance dominated by Hasina&#8217;s Awami League won 288\u00a0seats in the 300-seat parliament. The opposition alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won just six seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;My congratulations to the Awami League,&#8221; Helal Uddin Ahmed, secretary of the Election Commission Secretariat, told media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s party was widely anticipated to win the election that was\u00a0hit by violence and rigging allegations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At\u00a0least 17 people were reportedly killed in violence between rival supporters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hasina, who is\u00a0set to take office for the third consecutive\u00a0time and fourth time overall, is credited with\u00a0improving the country&#8217;s economy and promoting development, but she has also\u00a0been accused of\u00a0a crackdown on media and dissent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Opposition leader Kamal Hossain said their alliance rejected the election as &#8220;farcical&#8221; and had called on the Election Commission to order a fresh vote under a neutral administration &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221;, alleging Sunday&#8217;s poll was flawed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We are demanding that a fresh election is held under a neutral government as early as possible,&#8221; Kamal Hossain told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s ruling party won the general election with a landslide majority, the Election Commission said early on Monday while the opposition rejected the polls and claimed the votes as rigged. An alliance dominated by Hasina&#8217;s Awami League won 288\u00a0seats in the 300-seat parliament. The opposition alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2267,10460,10461,4878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307618,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307617\/revisions\/307618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}