Nationwide Citizen Occasion(NCP) chief Hasnat Abdullah, who sparked controversy for threatening to isolate India’s seven northeastern states, has received the Comilla-4 parliamentary seat within the 2026 Bangladesh nationwide elections, in keeping with media studies.
Abdullah secured over 1.6 lakh votes, defeating the BNP-backed candidate, Md A Jashim Uddin, who had boycotted the elections over allegations of electoral fraud, by over 1.1 lakh votes.
The NCP, born out of the 2024 anti-Sheikh Hasina protests, is part of the 11-party alliance led by the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
Abdullah shot to the limelight throughout and after the 2024 protests and serves because the celebration’s southern area chief organiser.
ROLE OF HASNAT ABDULLAH IN OUSTING SHEIKH HASINA REGIME
Hasnat Abdullah is a Bangladeshi activist-turned-politician and a former convener of the College students Towards Discrimination, which led the anti-Hasina July Rebellion in 2024. He has been the Chief Organiser (Southern Area) of the Nationwide Citizen Occasion after it was fashioned in 2025.
As one of many coordinators of the College students Towards Discrimination, he was amongst these main the preliminary quota reform motion opposing quotas in authorities jobs and that may later evolve right into a broader anti-Hasina motion calling for its fall.
Following the ouster of Hasina, Abdullah was one of many founding leaders of the Nationwide Citizen Occasion (NCP), which got here into being on February 28, 2025. The NCP web site calls itself the “first student-led political celebration within the historical past of Bangladesh”.
HASNAT ABDULLAH’S STATEMENTS ON INDIA, SEVEN SISTERS
Abdullah, a staunch critic of Hasina, has, in a number of situations, verbally attacked India, its insurance policies, and its territorial integrity.
In December 2025, Abdullah attracted controversy after threatening to isolate India’s seven north-eastern states and shelter anti-India components.
Addressing a rally in Dhaka, he warned that Dhaka might provide refuge to “separatist and anti-Indian forces,” claiming such help might isolate India’s northeastern “seven sisters.”
“I wish to make it clear to India that Bangladesh will reply if its sovereignty or rights are undermined,” he stated, including, “If Bangladesh is destabilised, the fireplace of resistance will unfold past its borders.”
He additionally stated that “vultures” continued makes an attempt to regulate Bangladesh a long time after independence.
In response, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had known as the remarks “irresponsible and harmful,” saying India wouldn’t stay silent amid repeated statements about separating the Northeast.
The Northeastern area of India has seven states. That’s the reason they’re known as the Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters are, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Together with Sikkim, the gathering of states sharing cultural and geographical ties, known as the Eight Sisters.
4 of the Seven Sisters — Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram — share borders with Bangladesh.
Hasnat Abdullah, who had earlier known as for banning Isckon and known as for the hanging of jailed Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu, additionally criticised PM Narendra Modi’s congratulatory put up on Vijay Diwas in December 2024.
“That is Bangladesh’s Liberation Warfare. The struggle was fought for Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan. However Modi has claimed that it was solely India’s struggle and achievement. In doing so, they’ve utterly ignored the existence of Bangladesh,” Abdullah had posted on Fb.
HASNAT ABDULLAH’S CONTROVERSIAL WIN AT COMILLA-4
Abdullah, who contested from the Comilla-4 seat, received the election by a landslide, with Dhaka-based newspaper, The Enterprise Normal, reporting a lead of over 110,000 votes.
His victory is among the few vibrant spots for the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance in an election the place the BNP has gained a thumping two-thirds majority within the nation’s parliament.
Throughout polling, Abdullah had urged voters to prove freely, describing the vote as “festive” and urging the general public to stay free from concern or intimidation, in keeping with BDNews24.
Nevertheless, the race was not with out controversy.
Bangladeshi information portal, Desh Rupantor, reported that Abdullah’s rival, Jashim Uddin, who was contesting as a candidate for the Gono Odikar Porishad (GOP) and likewise had BNP backing, boycotted the election after voting concluded.
The BNP-backed candidate alleged irregularities and malpractice at polling stations, together with claims that his brokers have been barred from centres and voters pressured.
Whereas the broader image in Comilla mirrored sturdy good points for the BNP, who received eight of the district’s 11 seats, Abdullah’s victory marked one of many few wins for the NCP, which had contested a complete of 30 seats as a part of the 11-party Jamaat alliance.
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