The election is just three days away and polls campaign ends at 8:00am tomorrow, but election violence and attacks on BNP and Oikyafront candidates are escalating even after military deployment.

Okiyafront candidate for Chattogram-5, Sayed Mohammad Ibrahim is attacked during electioneering near Chittagong University.

Rebel candidates were responsible for the deadly violence during the recently held Union Parishad (UP) elections, law minister tells the parliament.

Social instability and rigid stances of union parishad polls candidates were responsible for the election violence, claimed Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad holds the social instability and rigid stance of the candidates responsible for the election violence.

It was the deadliest phase of the ongoing polls to union parishads. At least 12 people, including two school-goers and two candidates, were killed in violence during yesterday's fifth-phase voting that was also marked by various irregularities.

Four more people were killed in the last two days, raising the death toll to around 80 in violence over union parishad polls.

As an independent chairman candidate in the ongoing Union Parishad polls, she does not want any extra favour; rather her

As violence continued with each phase of the Union Parishad polls gone by, the Election Commission has asked the home ministry to

Many incidents of violence and irregularities marked the voting in the fourth phase of the union parishad polls yesterday as

American lawmaker and member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Tulsi Gabbard calls for an end to violence against religious minorities and secular activists in Bangladesh.

BNP urges Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed to announce cancellation of phase 1 and 2 of Union Parishad elections over irregularities and violence across the country.

Political violence remains inseparable from Bangladeshi politics and election violence is an integral part of that violence.

Turnout in the first phase of Union Parishad elections was about 74 percent, says Election Commission Secretary Sirazul Islam.

With union parishad elections getting closer, supporters of rival candidates are being engaged in clashes in several districts.