Awami League nominated candidate for Rajshahi-6 (Bagha-Charghat) Shahriar Alam has been elected for the 4th time in the 12th parliamentary elections held on Sunday.
JSD's Inu defeated by 19,161 votes
Shahriar Alam, also the state minister for Foreign Affairs Ministry, bagged 1,01,599 votes while his nearest rival Rayhan who was an independent candidate secured 74,278 votes.
The voting in the 12th parliamentary election began at 8:00 am and concluded at 4pm without any break amid tight security in 299 out of the country’s 300 constituencies.