Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured a massive victory in the parliamentary polls for the third straight time. This victory makes her longest serving Prime Minister of the country giving her four terms.

As per the official reports from Dhaka, the ruling party Awami League and its allies have won 288 of the 300 parliamentary seats contested well surpassing their tally in the previous polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday has also congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her victory, saying “Hasina’s victory was the reflection of Bangladesh’s stunning development under her dynamic leadership”.Both India and Bangladesh share long and special ties and the stability of Bangladesh is prized by India given the strategic and political significance of the south-east Asian nation.

The 71-year-old leader, daughter of Bangladesh’s founding statesman Shiekh Mujibur Rehman has been lauded for boosting the economic growth of the country as well as handling Rohingya refugee crisis considered to be a massive humanitarian crisis to have hit region.

Meanwhile, the opposition has questioned the polls, which saw violence in some pockets and death of 17 persons.The main opposition party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),which had boycotted the polls in 2014 could win only 6 seats this time.