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Bangladesh: Political Trends and Key Players
Performance of AL in some constituencies with minority population of
around 20 to 35 per cent. (2008 elections)
Constituency
Dinajpur-1
Magura-1
Narail-1
Khulna-1
Khulna-5
Barguna-1
Maulavibazar
Khagrachhari
Rangamati
Bandarban
Candidate’s performance
AL won
AL won
AL won
AL won
AL won
AL won
AL won in all the 4 seats
AL won
AL won
AL won
th
Source: Results 9 Parliamentary Election in http://www.ecs.gov.bd
Sheikh Hasina is one of the two surviving siblings of Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman. She was abroad along with her sister Rihana on August 15
1975, the day when her father and most of her family members were
killed by a group of army officers. She went into exile in India, and
while there was elected president of Awami League in 1981. She has
formidable control over the party, as could be clearly seen from the
inability of the military backed caretaker regime (2007-08) to remove
her from the position of party leader despite its initiatives to carve out
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an alternative leadership for the party.
Sheikh Hasina has often been accused of being autocratic in dealing
with her party's affairs. Bangladeshi political analysts are of the view
that Sheikh Haisna aims to consolidate her position in the party by
being ruthless in crushing any dissent. Many of the top influential
leaders who spoke about party reforms were ostracized within the
party after AL came to power after the 2008 elections. These leaders
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