Charlotte Gallagher

1,400 people are thought to have died in the protest back in 2024.

Rashna Marzabin was one of the protesters and has mixed feelings about the results.

It came with such a bloodshed, such a bloodshed that has yet not left my body.

I think

would be in my body for a very long time.

While Bangladesh's election committee has called the election a neutral and credible one, Sheikh Hasina's Awami League has been banned from participating.

And the Jamaat-e-Islami party and former allies of the BNP have since raised questions about the integrity of the vote.

We asked our correspondent Yogita Lamai to tell us more about this dramatic turnaround for the BNP ahead of her special report.

Two years ago, when Sheikh Hasina won an election which was widely condemned as being rigged in her favor, I don't think anyone would have imagined a day when her grip on power in this country was broken.

But then in July 2024, there was a mass student uprising that ousted her.

She's now in exile in India.

Her party has not been allowed to contest this election.

She's denounced the election.

and the man who says that she was the reason he was forced into exile 17 years ago.

He was living in London.

He's now back in the country.

His party has won this election very decisively, and he is set to be the next prime minister of Bangladesh.

I'm standing outside a mosque in Tariq Rehman's constituency and I can see lots of men streaming into the mosque to offer Friday prayers.

If people were expecting a grand celebration after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's victory in the election, that is not happening.

What the BNP has done today instead is that it's told its workers, its members, its followers to...