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#bangladesh-nationalist-party

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party secured a clear majority of parliamentary seats in the country's landmark election, with party chairman, Tarique Rahman, set to become the next prime minister. Follow here. BNP chief Tarique Rahman is set to lead Bangladesh after the electionsImage: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo/dpa/picture alliance Skip next section What you need to know Bangladesh Nationalist Party has secured a clear majority of parliamentary seats BNP chairman Tarique Rahman expected to take over from interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus

Nearly 127 million eligible voters are electing the next prime minister and parliament for a five-year term. Vote counting is under way in Bangladesh, where 127 million eligible voters are electing a new government, 18 months after a student-led movement ended Sheikh Hasina's two-decade rule. Alliances led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) are vying for the most seats in the national assembly.

It was almost midnight, but tens of thousands of people were still gathering for a campaign rally in Gazipur, a garment manufacturing hub north of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. Many had been waiting for hours to hear Tarique Rahman, who succeeded as the chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) following the death of his mother and Bangladesh's first female prime minister, Khaleda Zia, in December.