Jatiya Oikya Front chief and Gono Forum President Kamal Hossain speaks at a Dhaka hotel on Monday prior to the announcement of the alliance’s election manifesto. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Jatiya Oikya Front chief and Gono Forum President Kamal Hossain speaks at a Dhaka hotel on Monday prior to the announcement of the alliance’s election manifesto. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Jatiya Oikya Front leader and BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaks at a press conference for the announcement of the alliance’s election manifesto at a Dhaka hotel on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Nagorik Oikya President Mahmudur Rahman Manna reads out the Jatiya Oikya Front’s election manifesto at a Dhaka hotel on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Bikalpadhara Bangladesh Chairman AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury speaks at a Victory Day discussion organised by the Jukto Front at the Dhaka Reporters Unity on Monday.

Chhaynaut held a cultural programme at the Dhaka University's central playground on Friday to celebrate the Victory Day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chhaynaut held a cultural programme at the Dhaka University's central playground on Friday to celebrate the Victory Day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chhaynaut held a cultural programme at the Dhaka University's central playground on Friday to celebrate the Victory Day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chhaynaut held a cultural programme at the Dhaka University's central playground on Friday to celebrate the Victory Day. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman inaugurated the Victory Day celebrations of Chhayanaut at the university's central playground by hoisting the national flag on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chhayanaut began its Victory Day celebrations with the rendering of the national anthem at the Dhaka University's central playground on Friday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Thousands came to the National Martyrs’ Memorial on Sunday to pay their respects to freedom fighters on Victory Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

The National Martyrs’ Memorial is strewn with flowers on the 47th anniversary of Victory Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other party leaders pay their respects to martyrs at the National Martyrs’ Memorial on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A delegation of the Jatiya Oikya Front, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, pays its respects at the National Martyrs’ Memorial on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Thousands came to the National Martyrs’ Memorial on Sunday to pay their respects to freedom fighters on Victory Day. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar on Victory Day on Sunday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir attends a Jatiya Oikya Front ‘victory procession’ on Victory Day in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A Jatiya Oikya Front ‘victory procession’ sets off from Dhaka’s Naya Paltan on Sunday.