Awaz Apni DHAKA : Bangladesh went to the polls under tight security Monday in the first elections here since 2001, with a pair of former leaders and bitter rivals vying to reclaim power in the impoverished nation. The vote will restore democracy to the south Asian country after two years of caretaker rule by an army-backed interim government, installed after a wave of political violence prevented the last scheduled elections. Thousands queued at polling stations in thick early morning fog, with hundreds of thousands of police and soldiers deployed to avert clashes between rival supporters and feared attacks by Islamic extremists. Despite attempts by the caretaker regime to shake up a political system long seen as deeply corrupt, the two leading candidates are fierce rivals who have ruled alternately since 1991. Sheikh Hasina Wajed of the Awami League and Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) both wooed voters with last-minute promises of lower food prices, action agains...
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