Bangladesh opposition rejects city polls, calls strike

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s largest opposition party has called a dawn-to-dusk strike for Sunday in capital Dhaka rejecting the results of two major city polls. At a press conference in Dhaka hours after the city corporation polls, ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the strike Saturday night, Xinhua news agency reported.

In the country’s first-ever EVM (electronic voting machine)-only elections to Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporations, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda said around 30 percent of 5.46 million voters have cast their ballots. (IANS)

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