RR7308 BANGLADESH ELECTION ADVANCER CUTS

(24 Feb 1973) CUTS FOR STORY W009666
The world's youngest nation, Bangladesh, 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 mall opposition parties to the left and right of Mujibur 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 United Nations relief operation is wound down at the end of March 1973.

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