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In the News (Mon 6 Jul 09)

  
 The Bangladesh Journal
It is being speculated in Bangladesh's political circles that Bangladesh Awami League was routed in the general election of 2001 because of Bangladesh Nationalist Party's ability to successfully form a strong coalition.
It is to be noted that, in 1990 general election, Bangladesh Awami League formed election alliances with left leaning parties, where communist leaders ran the 1990 election bearing the Awami League election symbol "boat".
By Shafquat Rabbee: The Bangladesh Awami League, inspired by the surprise election victory of Congress Party in neighboring India, re-initiated its efforts to forge Congress like alliance in Bangladesh with Bangladeshi Communist parties in order to oust the present elected Bangladeshi government by 'street movements'.
www.bangladeshjournal.com /index.php?ID=641   (340 words)

  
 Bangladesh Foreign Policy vis-a-vis India
In the general election of October 2001, the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) of Begum Khaleda Zia scored a landslide victory, capturing an absolute majority of 192 seats by itself and 215 with its hardliner allies Jamaat-e-Islami and Islamic Oikya Jote (IOJ).
The BNP always used the anti-India stand as a major election plank and Begum Khaleda Zia proved to be a failure in her foreign policy towards India.
Khaleda Zia, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, proclaimed, “The situation arising out of the demolition of the Babri mosque is fraught with a possibility of an adverse impact on Indo-Bangladeshi relations”
www.idsa-india.org /SAARCHIVES/SA200302/APR-JUN07.htm   (5906 words)

  
 Why Bangladesh hates India
In the 2001 election, the Jaamat got 17 seats, and Nizami was named minister of industries in Khaleda Zia's cabinet.
Despite being accused of war crimes, and despite holding a Pakistani passport, Abdul Majid's mentor, Golam Azam, was pardoned and allowed to return to Bangladesh as the Jaamat leader in 1977 by General Zia-ur Rahman.
But the supreme court ruled that he was a Bangladeshi by birth, and restored his citizenship.
www.rediff.com /news/2005/dec/21bspec.htm?q=sp&file=.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Why Bangladesh hates India
In the 2001 election, the Jaamat got 17 seats, and Nizami was named minister of industries in Khaleda Zia's cabinet.
Despite being accused of war crimes, and despite holding a Pakistani passport, Abdul Majid's mentor, Golam Azam, was pardoned and allowed to return to Bangladesh as the Jaamat leader in 1977 by General Zia-ur Rahman.
In the June 1996 election, the Jamaat won only three seats.
in.rediff.com /news/2005/dec/21bspec.htm   (1468 words)

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