The curtain fell on Bangladesh’s election campaign on Tuesday morning as political parties wrapped up weeks of intense electioneering. In the final hours, leaders made a series of promises and pledges, leaving voters to reflect on those ahead of the February-12 national election. In remote areas of 25 districts, a team of 16–18 police and Ansar members will be deployed at each polling station. A total of 1,528,131 voters, including 767,233 expatriates under the Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) programme and 760,898 government officials, polling personnel and prisoners under the In-Country Postal Voting (ICPV) programme, were registered for postal voting. Of them, 64,620,077 are male voters, 62,677,232 are female voters and 1,213 are third-gender voters.
