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65 parties fail to win any seats : Repolling in 4 constituencies Mar 9

BNP emerges victorious

By Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) headed by Begum Khaleda Zta emerged as the single largest party In the parliament. It secured 140 seats out of 294 according to results announced till Thursday evening.
Bangladesh Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina stood second In the electoral race. The party won 84 seats.
Jattya Party (JP) won 35 seats and emerged as the third largest party
A total of 76 political par ties took part In the parlia mentary polls. Of them. 65 failed to win any scats.
Prominent among the losers was JSD of ASM Abdur Rab.who was leader of the loyal opposition in the last parlia ment.
Others who failed to secure any scats were Freedom Party. Zaker Party and Communist League.
The Five-Party Alliance sue ceeded in bagging only one seat.
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Contrary to popular belief that Jamaat-e-Islamlf JI) was sure to secure third position in election battle with BNP and AL, the party was placed al the fourth position. The JI secured 18 seats. The party chief Maulana Abbas All Khan who contested from two seats in Dhaka and Joypurhat lost both to BNP candidates. In Dhaka city, the maulana had the third position. BNP candidate Mirza Abbas won the seat and AL candidate Muzzafar Hossain Paltu had the second position. In Joypurhat. the JI chief lost to another BNP candidate Abbas Alt Monda)
Wednesday's parliamentary elections were held in 298 scats out of 300. Elections to two seats, one at Munshiganj and the other in Kushtia. will be held later on. Two candidates In these seats died ear
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia contested In five constituencies, two in Dhaka and one each In Chittagong. Bogra and Fenl. She captured all the seats.
Awami League (AL) chief Sheikh Hasina ran far three scats two from Dhaka city and one In her home town Gopalganj. She bagged Gopalganj seat but lost one Dhaka seat ( Tejgaon-Ramna ) to BNP candidate MajorfRetd) Abdul Mannan and another seat ( Sutrapur-Kotwali) to BNP nominee Sadck Hossain Khoka.
Former president H M Ershad contested In five scats at his home district Rangpur and won all the scats He is now in detention at a Gulshan
Her. One had a natural death while another was killed by miscreants.
Out of 298 seats, repolllng will take place tn four constituencies on March 9. The decision for repolllng was taken by the Election Commission following disturbances in some centres.
In all. 76 political parties put up 2350 candidates for 298 seats. The number of independent candidates was 424
This was for the first time in Bangladesh that the parliamentary elections had been held under a neutral caretaker government headed by Mr Justice Sahabuddtn Ahmed. Foreign observer teams from the Commonwealth and SAARC countries. Japan and the Washington-based National Democratic Institute monitored the polls across the country. Besides, some other local observer teams Including those from bar associations of Bangladesh extensively toured different parts to oversee the conduct of polls. Both the local and foreign observers were deeply impressed to see the holding of elections In an atmosphere of cordiality and peace and in a free and fair manner. The two-member SAARC Secretariat team con slstfng of Mr Nikhil Chakravatory from India and Mr Ncaz Naik from Pakistan asserted that the example set by Bangladesh in holding free and fair elections should be followed as a model In the SAARC countries.
Meanwhile, the smaller parties contesting tlie polls cut a sorry figure. The available unofficial results show the position of the. parties as follows: Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB1 - five. Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (HAKSAL) --four. National Awami Party (NAP-Muzaffar). Jaliyo Samajtrantik Dal (JSD-SiraJ). Islam! Olkya Jote (IOJ). Ganatrantik Party! OP). and Hangladcshcr Samajtrantik Dal(BSD) - one each. Only three independents were elected
CUP. HAKSAL. and NAP(M) winners contested the elections with AL symbol, boat. They are the components of the Eight-Party Alliance, headed by Sheikh Haslna of AL.