{"id":7005,"date":"2025-12-12T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:21:41","slug":"bangladesh-to-hold-landmark-general-elections-on-february-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/12\/bangladesh-to-hold-landmark-general-elections-on-february-12-2026","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh to hold Landmark General Elections on February 12, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"198\"><strong data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"198\">Dhaka : <\/strong>Bangladesh&#8217;s Election Commission has officially revealed that the nation\u2019s general elections will be held on February 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"562\">This announcement comes almost a year after widespread protests by students on August 5, 2025, led to the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, bringing an end to her 15-year rule and forcing her to flee to India.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"721\">Following her departure, Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus took charge of an interim government to steer the country through a transitional phase.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"723\" data-end=\"877\">Speaking about the upcoming elections, Muhammad Yunus confirmed that the Election Commission had been directed to conduct the polls in February next year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"879\" data-end=\"1111\">In the aftermath of this official declaration, political parties and their candidates across the nation have quickly intensified their campaigns, signaling the start of a crucial and highly scrutinized election season in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka : Bangladesh&#8217;s Election Commission has officially revealed that the nation\u2019s general elections will be held on February 12, 2026. This announcement comes almost a year after widespread protests by students on August 5, 2025, led to the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, bringing an end to her 15-year rule and forcing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[160,2294],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-headline","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7007,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}