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BANGLADESH: Students who led a mass uprising to topple former prime minister Sheikh Hasina last summer announced yesterday that they are forming the new National Citizen Party.

The aim is to create new political space in a fiercely divisive dynastic political landscape. 

The announcement came yesterday at a rally in front of Parliament in Dhaka.

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