DHAKA: Among the candidates from religious minority communities in the Bangladesh elections, four have secured victory. All the winning candidates are from the BNP. While the party had fielded six candidates from minority communities, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jatiya Nagorik Party had nominated one each.
The results hold significance in the backdrop of violence targeting the religious Hindu minority in the country. The community has faced a series of attacks, some fatal, after the killing of radical youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi in Dec.
