What Undermined Jamaat-e-Islami’s Momentum in Bangladesh’s High-Stakes Election?
In the weeks leading up to Bangladesh’s February 12 general election, the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami projected unusual confidence. Political analysts in Dhaka speculated that the party long relegated to the margins of national politics might record its strongest electoral performance since independence. With the Awami League banned from contesting and the political landscape dramatically reshaped by […]