The Election Commission today started handing over election materials, including ballot boxes and other material, to polling centres across the country, ahead of tomorrow's national election

Election Commissioner Anisur Rahman today said there is a possibility that Bangladesh will be isolated from the world if the upcoming national polls is not free, fair and credible

PM Sheikh Hasina said the countrymen would give a befitting reply to those conspirators through votes on the January 7 election

BNP announced a two-day mass contact and leaflet distribution programme for Friday and Saturday as part of their one-point movement

AL president, speaking at Pirganj rally, urges people to vote early on January 7

The Awami League’s main focus will be on generating employment in order to make Bangladesh a developed nation by 2041, said several leaders involved in drafting of the party’s election manifesto.

BNP will distribute leaflets on December 26, 27 and 28 and conduct mass contact programmes to drum up support in favour of their campaign to boycott the January 7 national election

Bangladesh is facing the possibility of a third election in which the basic preconditions for a competitive and inclusive election are not really going to be fulfilled, eminent economist Professor Rehman Sobhan said yesterday.

The outcome that the BNP and its allies are hoping for is what the AL had achieved in 1996

It asks countrymen to boycott election, not to pay taxes

The US State Department reiterated yesterday that it supports a free and fair election in Bangladesh.

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has reached Sylhet where she is set to flag off the party's electioneering for the Januar 7 national election today

The BNP and like-minded political parties are likely to start campaigns on Friday to dissuade voters from casting ballots on January 7, said party sources.