Campaigning ends tomorrow for Bangladesh’s general election on December 30 with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League seeking a third straight term in office even as main opposition BNP is in a crippled state as its leader and former premier Khaleda Zia remains in jail for corruption.
The BNP has alleged that the Awami League government is trying to push it out of the electoral fray.
“The government is applying all its power to oust us from the election,” Bangladesh Nationalist Party spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said. Kamal Hossain, convenor of opposition National Unity Front (NUF) in which BNP is a key partner, called an emergency meeting of the alliance to decide their next course of action.