DHAKA: Dozens of polling booths were torched and a train set alight on the eve of Bangladesh’s election as the opposition launched a 48-hour strike against the vote “farce”.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is boycotting the vote, called the two-day general strike – but it has little chance of thwarting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s re-election in what is effectively a one-party contest.
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