What Bangladesh’s New Leader Tarique Rahman Means for South Asia and the World

Tarique Rahman had spent 17 years in exile before returning to Bangladesh on Christmas Day. Just seven weeks later, he looks set to become the South Asian nation’s new Prime Minister.

Polling indicates that Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is set to win an outright majority of around 185 seats in the 300-member legislature in Thursday’s general election, which is the first since the ouster of autocratic former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Aug. 5, 2024. 

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