Bangladesh elections: Hasnat Abdullah of National Citizens Party wins, had threatened to cut off India’s Northeast from mainland

Dhaka: The Bangladeshi leader who threatened to isolate India’s northeastern states has won a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections. Hasnat Abdullah, leader of Bangladesh’s National Citizens Party, has won the Comilla-4 parliamentary seat. Abdullah secured over 1.6 lakh votes in Thursday’s national election, defeating BNP-backed candidate Md. A. Jashim Uddin by a margin of 1.1 lakh votes. Jashim Uddin had boycotted the election, alleging voting fraud.
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