Bangladesh, Sept. 10 -- Independent vice-president candidate Umama Fatema has rejected the results of the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) election and launched a scathing attack on the Islami Chhatra Shibir, accusing the group of "betraying the nation" through large-scale rigging.

In a Facebook post around 5:45am on Wednesday, after polls closed and counting stretched into the night, Umama -- a leading figure in last year's July Uprising and head of the Independent Students Unity panel -- wrote: "This rigged election will be etched in Bangladesh's history as a black night. Fourteen hundred people have died for a rigged election! What kind of history, what kind of system? In the meantime, so many families have been left d...