{"id":54907,"date":"2026-02-13T02:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54907"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:59:37","slug":"bangladeshs-bnp-wins-big-in-historic-parliamentary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54907","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s BNP wins big in historic parliamentary election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DHAKA, Feb 13  &#8211; The Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a landslide parliamentary election on Friday, local TV stations showed, securing a resounding mandate in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/bangladesh-election-live-long-lines-first-vote-since-ex-pm-sheikh-hasinas-ouster-2026-02-12\/\">pivotal vote<\/a>\u00a0that is expected to restore political stability in the South Asian nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parliamentary election held on Thursday was Bangladesh&#8217;s first vote since the 2024 Gen Z-driven&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/bangladeshs-gen-z-battles-gain-political-ground-after-ousting-hasina-2025-12-04\/\">uprising<\/a>&nbsp;that toppled long\u2011time premier Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A clear outcome had been seen as crucial for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/bangladesh-votes-worlds-first-gen-z-inspired-election-2026-02-09\/\">stability<\/a>\u00a0in the Muslim-majority country of 175 million after months of deadly anti-Hasina unrest disrupted everyday life and hit major industries, including the apparel sector in the world&#8217;s second-largest garment exporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also the first national election to follow recent revolts led by the under-30s that have cropped up through the wider region.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/nepal-says-economy-suffered-586-million-hit-gen-z-protests-2025-12-12\/\">Nepal<\/a>\u00a0is set to hold a vote next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) DHAKA, Feb 13 &#8211; The Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a landslide parliamentary election on Friday, local TV stations showed, securing a resounding mandate in a\u00a0pivotal vote\u00a0that is expected to restore political stability in the South Asian nation. The parliamentary election held on Thursday was Bangladesh&#8217;s first vote since the 2024 Gen Z-driven&nbsp;uprising&nbsp;that toppled long\u2011time premier Sheikh Hasina. A clear outcome had been seen as crucial for\u00a0stability\u00a0in the Muslim-majority country of 175 million after months of deadly anti-Hasina unrest disrupted everyday life and hit major industries, including the apparel sector in the world&#8217;s second-largest garment exporter. It was also the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54909,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907\/revisions\/54909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}