(24 Feb 1973) RR7308 BANGLADESH: ELECTION ADVANCER
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The world’s youngest nation, Bangla Desh, goes to
the polls on March 7th 1973 in the first national
elections since independence. Prime Minister Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League Party are
certain to win all but a handful of seats in the new
300-member assembly. Even so there are several small
opposition parties to the left and right of Mujib who
are attracting large crowds of students to political
meetings in the main towns. The election is taking
place against the background of enormous social and
economic problems facing the country, not least of
which is how to feed 75 million people when the UN
relief operation is wound down at the end of March
1973.
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