Bangladesh To Announce National Election Date Today, Key Test For Muhammad Yunus, Khaleda Zia

2025-12-11 02:02:01

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Bangladesh's Election Commission is all set to announce the date of parliamentary elections amid repeated calls for national polls more than a year after Sheikh Hasina's government was toppled following a student-led protest.

Election Commission Secretary Akhtar Ahmed was quoted by Reuters as saying that Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin will announce the election schedule in a national broadcast at 6:00 pm (1200 GMT).

A national referendum on implementing the so-called 'July Charter', a state reform plan drafted in the aftermath of the unrest, is also expected to be held on the same day.

The polls are likely to be held in February 2026. It may witness a tough fight between Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who currently leads the interim government in Bangladesh, and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is widely seen as the frontrunner in the upcoming polls, competing alongside the Jamaat-e-Islami party, which has returned to electoral politics after the interim government eased restrictions.

Bangladesh is currently been governed by an interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus since August last year, when long-serving Hasina fled to India in the face of deadly street protests against her government.

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