The polls will be held in the absence of its two most towering political figures, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been in India since she was deposed in 2024, and Khaleda Zia, who died in... .
The elections are the first since the fall of autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the summer of 2024 ... In 2024, after Hasina’s fall, the courts overturned his convictions, finally freeing him to return home.