Islamist Party’s Rise Overshadows Student Revolution in Bangladesh The party is dedicated to running the country under Islamic law, but ran on a more moderate platform. It gained far more seats in last week’s election than it ever had before. The youth wing of an Islamist political party in Bangladesh stunned the country in September when it secured a landslide victory in student elections at the University of Dhaka, a bastion of left-liberal politics where the 2024 revolution was hatched. It was the first sign that a new power broker had entered mainstream politics in Bangladesh, which had been governed mainly by two dynastic political parties since attaining nationhood in 1971. The party, Jamaat-e-Islami, proved on Thursday that its early successes were not a fluke. In the first national elections since the 2024 revolution — when students toppled the government of Sheikh Hasina, an autocr...