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"Our alliance with Jamaat is only an electoral understanding. It is by no means an ideological one. On the contrary, the Awami League has a long history of close relations with the Jamaat and other extremist religious groups."
KHALEDA ZIA
Chairperson of BNP
Said in an interview with the Indian journalist Jaideep Mazumdar

"Representatives of some countries are speaking against the election. But when I met the heads of different states and governments and the chancellor of a country, none of them raised any question about the election."
SHEIKH HASINA
Prime Minister
Said that no world leaders questioned the January 5 election, which the BNP and most other political parties boycotted