India, Feb. 18 -- In the aftermath of the Bangladesh general election, a new political jibe has taken hold on social media.

Following the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's landslide victory, allies within the Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance began referring to BNP chief and newly elected Prime Minister Tarique Rahman as an "engineer," a term loaded with sarcasm and political accusation.

The label emerged amid claims that the election outcome was "engineered" rather than earned.

The National Citizen Party (NCP), formed during the anti-Sheikh Hasina agitation and now part of the Jamaat-led bloc, has been at the forefront of pushing this narrative.

One of the earliest uses of the term came from NCP leader Nasiruddin Patwary, who posted...