Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will hold a general election on January 5, the Election Commission said on Monday, in an announcement likely to anger the opposition which is demanding a neutral caretaker government to oversee the polls.
This month, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formed a caretaker cabinet to oversee the election but the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) says it is not impartial.
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