Tarique Rahman’s BNP alliance wins absolute majority of 212 Parliament seats in Bangladesh poll

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by chairman Tarique Rahman, is set to instrumentality to powerfulness successful Dhaka aft 2 decades, pursuing a landslide triumph successful the February 12 Parliamentary election, winning an implicit bulk of seats, according to the Election Commission of Bangladesh.

The BNP-led confederation has secured 212 seats, giving it a two-thirds bulk successful the Jatiyo Sansad. The 11-party confederation led by the Jamaat-e-Islami has won 77 seats, portion autarkic candidates won 8 seats.

Mr. Rahman has started receiving congratulatory messages from satellite leaders, including from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who spoke to him by telephone connected Friday (February 13, 2026) evening.

‘No triumph parade’

The BNP spent the time successful interior consultations arsenic the apical winners and the members of the party’s lasting committee, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Mirza Abbas, Salauddin Ahmed and Gayeshwar Chandra Roy returned to the superior Dhaka for consultation with the enactment chief.

Mr. Rahman, the Prime Minister-designate, issued an interior bid saying the enactment should debar taking retired a triumph parade and joined his colleagues for Friday (February 13, 2026) prayers successful the Gulshan Navi Jame Mosque. Mr. Alamgir told the media that the BNP would take each sides on arsenic it prepares to govern Bangladesh.

International congratulations

Nepal’s interim government’s Prime Minister Sushila Karki and Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu besides congratulated Mr. Rahman connected Facebook, expressing their tendency to beforehand bilateral ties. Mr. Modi archetypal wished Mr. Rahman connected X and followed it up with a telephone call.

“I convey my lukewarm congratulations to Mr. Tarique Rahman connected starring BNP to a decisive triumph successful the Parliamentary elections successful Bangladesh. This triumph shows the spot of the radical of Bangladesh successful your leadership. India volition proceed to basal successful enactment of a democratic, progressive and inclusive Bangladesh. I look guardant to moving with you to fortify our multifaceted relations and beforehand our communal improvement goals,” the Prime Minister said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also congratulated Mr. Rahman. “For this large victory, my congratulations to my Tarique-Bhai, his enactment and each the parties. Pray you each volition beryllium good and happy,” she said. Briefing the media, BNP person Mr. Choudhury acknowledged the messages from the leaders of Nepal, India and the Maldives and said, “They person expressed their tendency to enactment with us.”

Transfer of power

While the process of transportation of powerfulness from the interim authorities led by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus volition beryllium clearer aft a gazette notification by the Bangladesh Election Commission, the interim authorities has indicated that it is acceptable to manus implicit the reins to the recently elected authorities by February 17 oregon 18.

“Law Adviser Asif Nazrul and ineligible luminaries are carrying retired a consultation, and by Saturday (February 14, 2026), we volition get to cognize erstwhile the oath-taking ceremonial for the members of parliament and the authorities volition beryllium completed,” Mr. Yunus’s property advisor Shafiqul Alam told The Hindu.

Bangladesh’s 2024 wide uprising, which led to the overthrow of the previous Sheikh Hasina government, besides led to the dissolution of the Parliament, with astir members of the ruling enactment fleeing the country. Subsequently, the Deputy Speaker of the 12^th National Parliament, Shamsul Haque Tuku, was arrested. Given the circumstances surrounding the dissolution of the Parliament successful 2024, the interim authorities volition bash a fool impervious occupation truthful that the oath-taking volition beryllium a legally coagulated process, The Hindu was told.