Bangladesh leader who threatened to cut off Seven Sisters, wins big. Who's Hasnat Abdullah?
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The NCP's Hasnat Abdullah, who played a big role in bringing down the Sheikh Hasina regime and has a history of issuing inflammatory remarks on India, has won the Comilla-4 seat in Bangladesh elections by a huge margin. Here's all about Abdullah, who threatened to cut off India's northeastern states and demanded a ban on Iskcon.
National Citizen Party(NCP) leader Hasnat Abdullah, who sparked controversy for threatening to isolate India's seven northeastern states, has won the Comilla-4 parliamentary seat in the 2026 Bangladesh national elections, according to media reports.
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 a part of the 11-party alliance led by the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
Abdullah shot to the limelight during and after the 2024 protests and serves as the party's southern region chief organiser.
Hasnat Abdullah is a Bangladeshi activist-turned-politician and a former convener of the Students Against Discrimination, which led the anti-Hasina July Uprising in 2024. He has been the Chief Organiser (Southern Region) of the National Citizen Party after it was formed in 2025.
As one of the coordinators of the Students Against Discrimination, he was among those leading the initial quota reform movement opposing quotas in government jobs and that would later evolve into a broader anti-Hasina movement calling for its fall.
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