Dhaka: Bangladesh's Chittagong University on Thursday suspended the student union election results of two halls following allegations of voting irregularities and post-election unrest, shortly after the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, claimed victory, local media reported.

The Shibir-backed candidates won key posts, including vice-president, general secretary, and 22 other positions in the Chittagong University Central Students' Union election (CUCSU).

Election Commission member-secretary AKM Ariful Haque said that the results of Atish Dipankar Srigyan Hall and Suhrawardy Hall at Chittagong University would be recounted on Thursday afternoon and published later, without providing details on the reason for the recount, Bangladesh's leading ne

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