Election results ‘muzzled’
NZPA-Reuter Dhaka The pro-Government Jatiya Party headed for a comfortable majority in Parliament according to the latest election results yesterday but the Opposition charged widespread fraud.
Election Commission figures showed Jatiya winning 132 of the 264 constituencies counted so far. The main opposition
party, Awami League, had 70 and other parties in a 15-party alliance with the league had 20. Three hundred Parliamentary seats were contested. The Awami League’s chief, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, refused to accept the results and called for a general strike and a “gherao” (seige) of Election Commission offices, which she accused of “muzzling the poll results.”
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