Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her party the Awami League are headed for a landslide win in the 11th National Election.
The results available so far, show the ruling party racing into a clear lead, winning over 150 seats followed by its key ally Jatiya Party at 12.
The BNP, the largest ally in the opposition coalition Jatiya Oikya Front, has so far won two seats.
Hasina won her Gopalganj-3 seat by a huge margin clinching 229,529 votes from the 246, 514 voters in the constituency leaving the BNP’s candidate with a meager 123 votes.
Opposition alliance Jatiya Oikya Front described the election as farcical and rejected the results calling for a fresh election.
“The farcical polls have to be scrapped … We reject the results and demand a new election under a neutral administration,” its chief Dr Kamal Hossain said.
Responding to a query, he said that they will continue with the struggle to “institutionalize democracy”.
“We will sit tomorrow and discuss on the next course of actions and provide details at a later time.”
The coalition’s spokesperson and BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the election was a ‘cruel mockery of democracy’.
“This election proves that the BNP was not wrong to boycott the 2014 election,” he said.
Echoing Dr Kamal, Mirza Fakhrul, who is now the face of the BNP with party chief Khaleda Zia in jail for graft and acting chief Tarique Rahman in self-exile in London, said, “It has been proved once again that a credible election is not possible under a partisan government.”
