Bangladesh is set to hold parliamentary elections on Thursday, the first national vote since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in mass protests in August 2024. Authorities have rolled out unprecedented security measures, with more than half of the country’s polling centres identified as “risk-prone.”
According to police assessments, nearly 24,000 of the approximately 43,000 polling stations across the country have been categorised as “high” or “moderate” risk. In Dhaka alone, 1,614 out of 2,131 polling centres have been marked risk-prone. However, the army has said it identified only two centres in the capital as “risky.”
