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The development doesn’t portend well for the parliamentary democracy in Bangladesh, but no tears are being shed in New Delhi for former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia, who was sentenced to five years in jail for corruption on Thursday.
Zia heads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which along with Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League, has dominated the Bangladeshi politics in what is popularly termed the “battle of the Begums”. Zia was first elected prime minister in 1991, and last served as her country’s head of government from 2001 to 2006.
After military-backed government ruled for a couple of years, Hasina won
