DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim leader has sought to calm rival political parties questioning the impartiality of his cabinet as they jostle for power ahead of the first elections since a 2024 uprising.
The polls, expected in February 2026, will be the first in the South Asian nation of 170 million people since a student-led revolt ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, ending her 15-year hardline rule.
Muhammad Yunus, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner serving as the country’s “chief adviser”, had “taken measures to hold free, impartial, and fair elections”, his press team said Thursday.