Bangladesh PM Hasina asks party officials to ensure fair election

Bangladesh PM Hasina asks party officials to ensure fair election

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the officials of her ruling Awami League party to ensure a free, fair and peaceful election next month so that no one "can raise any question about it".

The main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is boycotting the election after its demand for an interim non-party neutral government to organise the voting was rejected by the Hasina government. The party had boycotted the 2014 election but took part in 2018 polls.