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Four candidates from number communities, including 2 Hindus, won successful the caller wide elections successful Bangladesh, with each being nominees of the BNP, which is acceptable to signifier the authorities connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026).
Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Nitai Roy Chowdhury are the 2 Hindu candidates who won connected a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) ticket. They won from a Dhaka spot and the occidental Magura constituency, defeating their rivals fielded by the Jamaat-e-Islami.
Mr. Roy is simply a subordinate of the BNP’s highest policy-making lasting committee, portion Mr. Chowdhury is 1 of the salient vice presidents of the enactment arsenic good arsenic a elder advisor and strategist for its apical leadership.
The 3rd number MP-elect is Saching Pru, a elder BNP person and follower of the Buddhist faith, representing the Marma taste assemblage successful southeastern elevation territory of Bandarban, from wherever helium was elected.
The 4th number candidate, Dipen Dewan, belongs to the Buddhist bulk Chakma taste number group, who won from a constituency successful southeastern Rangamati elevation district.
However, his spiritual individuality is obscure with galore describing him arsenic a Hindu.
Hindus marque up astir 8% of the colonisation successful the Muslim-majority state of 170 cardinal people.
Mr. Dewan defeated an autarkic Chakma campaigner arsenic his nearest rival, portion Mr. Pru defeated a nominee of the student-led National Citizen Party, which was formed past twelvemonth by the Students Against Discrimination, which led the wide protests against ousted premier curate Sheikh Hasina successful August 2024.
According to the Election Commission, 79 candidates, including 10 women from spiritual number communities, mostly Hindus, contested the predetermination connected Thursday (February 12, 2026). While 67 were nominated by 22 governmental parties, 12 ran arsenic autarkic candidates.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) fielded the highest fig with 17 number candidates.
It was followed by left-leaning Bangladesh Samyabadi Dal (BSD) with 8 number candidates, little-known Bangladesh Minority Janata Party (BMJP) with 8 candidates and left-leaning Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal (BASOD) with 7 candidates.
The BNP fielded six candidates and Jatiya Party nominated 4 candidates.
The Jamaat-e-Islami nominated a number Hindu campaigner for the archetypal clip successful its history.
The largest Islamist enactment fielded seasoned businessman Krishna Nandi from a southwestern Khulna constituency who mislaid but his information arsenic a Jamaat nominee was wide discussed. He finished arsenic the runner-up successful the Khulna-1 constituency conceding decision to a BNP candidate.
The fig of Hindu MPs successful the 2024 predetermination was 17 and the aforesaid fig of Hindus won successful the 2018 predetermination with astir of them belonging to Hasina’s Awami League.
Led by Tarique Rahman, the BNP swept to powerfulness with a two-thirds bulk with 49.97% votes and 212 seats successful Thursday's (February 12, 2026) polls, results for which were declared connected Friday (February 13, 2026).
The Jamaat-e-Islami, which was opposed to the country’s 1971 independency from Pakistan, registered its best-ever show with 31.76% votes and 68 seats. The National Citizen Party (NCP) secured the third-highest fig of seats, six, and 3.05% votes.
