The 2026 Bangladesh election has seen the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) trounce the Jamaat-e-Islami and secure a two-thirds majority. Among the winners are three individuals who faced the death penalty but will now enter Bangladesh's Parliament as MPs. All three had been freed by courts during the rule of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim set-up that was propped up after PM Sheikh Hasina was forced into exile. Two of the three faced anti-India terror cases.
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While two of them, Lutfozzaman Babar and Abdus Salam Pintu, are from the BNP, ATM Azharul Islam is from
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