Daijiworld News Network - Bangladesh

Bangladesh, Oct 23: In a bizarre incident, a politician from Bangladesh hired eight lookalikes to write exams for her. However, she was expelled after the scandal was broadcasted on a TV channel, as reported in AFP.

Tamanna Nusrat, from the ruling Awami League party hired as many as eight women to attempt 13 exams. Nusrat, who was elected to parliament last year, had signed up for the Bachelor of Arts degree with the Bangladesh Open University (BOU).

Private news channel Nagorik TV broke out the scandal. The news reporter of the channel entered the exam hall and confronted a woman who was posing to be Nusrat.

After the video went viral, Bangladesh Open University (BOU) head M A Mannan confirmed that her enrollment is cancelled and she will never be admitted into the institution again. “What she committed was a crime and we expelled her for that,” he told media.

Meanwhile, a college official on the condition of anonymity said that many people knew about the MP’s fraud. However, as she hailed from an influential family and as the lookalike students were protected by the MP’s musclemen, no one dared to raise objections.

Exam results in Bangladesh are frequently cancelled due to test fraud, cheating and leaking of question papers ahead of exams.

Nusrat has not yet commented on the issue.