On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on her 4th straight victory in the parliamentary election.
Talking to his X account, PM Modi penned, “Spoke to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and congratulated her on her victory for a historic fourth consecutive term in the Parliamentary elections. I also congratulate the people of Bangladesh for the successful conduct of elections. We are committed to further strengthen our enduring and people-centric partnership with Bangladesh.”
Hasina became prime minister for the first time in 1996. This will be her fifth overall.
Hasina’s Awami League won roughly 75% of the seats in Sunday’s general election, which was boycotted by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and had poor voter turnout.
Hasina won the Gopalganj-3 constituency by a wide margin for her eighth term as a Member of Parliament, while her party, the Awami League, gained 223 seats to set up the government in the elections held on Sunday.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami and other like-minded parties launched a nationwide strike, claiming that the elections were neither free nor fair.