The opposition alliance Jatiya Oikyafront demands immediate resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner and urges the president to appoint a nonpolitical and neutral person in the post.

Election Commissioner Kabita Khanam says voters will not be allowed to carry mobile phone sets while entering polling centres to exercise their franchise.

Top brass of Jatiya Oikyafront has called an emergency meeting after walking out of a meeting with the Election Commission.

A leader of Natore town unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) buys all the copies of Prothom Alo, the Bangla daily reports.

Four Awami League men are injured as BNP men allegedly attack an election procession brought out by the supporters of the AL candidate for Chattogram-4 constituency in Sitakunda area of the district.

The motorcade of BNP candidate for Manikganj-2 comes under attack, the second day of the military vigilance dispatched to curb violence.

Election Commission Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed says action will be taken only if a case is filed over the attack that left 12 journalists injured in Nawabganj.

Three BNP leaders are allegedly picked up by law enforcers from Jashore-Magura highway when they were going to campaign for the BNP candidate of Jashore-3 constituency.

The mobile internet may be downgraded on the election day as well as the day before and after it, said officials who attended a meeting at the Election Commission yesterday.

Twelve journalists on duty to cover election news are injured and 16 vehicles carrying them vandalised as unidentified miscreants attack them at a rest house close to Nawabganj Police Station.

In the last 12 days in Bogura election campaign, 12 cases were filed with five police stations in the district and over 8,000 BNP men were sued by police and AL alliance leaders on allegations of sabotage, vandalism, arson and explosion of crude bombs.

Seven candidates running with the “sheaf of paddy” electoral symbol were attacked allegedly by ruling party men yesterday while 130 supporters of the Awami League and the BNP were injured across the country in polls violence.

Rangpur division, founded in 2010, consists of eight districts –

Candidates from BNP and Jatiya Oikyafront in different constituencies of Pabna, Lalmonirhat and Netrakona are facing serious obstacles in polls campaign ahead of the December 30 parliament elections.

Voters of Sherpur-3 (Jhenaigati-Sreebordi) are waiting for a tough fight in the upcoming parliamentary elections between an uncle and his nephew as both have strong hold in the area.

Khondaker Abdul Hamid Dablu has been finally declared nominee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for Manikganj-1 constituency (Ghior, Daulatpur and Shibalaya upazilas) and got the symbol 'sheaf of paddy' for contesting in the December 30 parliament elections.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said army personnel deployed for election duty would take any measures required to maintain law and order.

Although Awami League (AL) candidate for Tangail-2 constituency (Bhuapur and Gopalpur upazilas) Tanvir Hasan Chhoto Monir has been running his election campaign in full swing, BNP nominated Sultan Salahuddin Tuku is in jail.

Jatiya Party Central Committee Vice President and local lawmaker Shawkat Chowdhury has allegedly been directing his followers to campaign for his rival BNP candidate Amzad Hossain Sarker ever since his nomination for Nilphamari-4 was cancelled.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the December 30 general election is very important to keep Bangladesh on the higher trajectory of development.