Supporters of an independent candidate from Dhaka-14 alleged that signatures of polling agents were taken on the result sheet before voting ended at a polling centre in Kalyanpur Girls School

Police are gathering a host of personal information, including political leanings, about probable polling officials in many districts, causing concern among them.

The BNP has instructed its mayoral candidates and their polling agents not to leave the election centres “under any circumstances” during the casting of ballots, and that they stay there till the announcement of election results.