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| Bangladesh opposition boycotts January 5 polls |
| 2013-12-03 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Bangladesh's opposition alliance Monday confirmed its boycott of a January general election, failing to register candidates before a deadline for nominations and plunging the country into renewed political uncertainty. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced the decision amid growing street violence that has left 52 people dead since late October and a series of strikes and blockades that have paralysed large parts of the country. "There is no question of us filing nominations for the January 5 election under the present circumstances. We're not going to take part in the January 5 elections," Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a BNP vice president, told AFP. Nominations closed at 5 pm (1100 GMT) Monday and officials said no BNP officials had filed their papers. |
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