Supporters escorting a prospective aspirant with a procession of motorcycles in a flagrant violation of the electoral code of conduct to the Awami League’s Dhanmondi office in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Supporters escorting a prospective aspirant with a procession of motorcycles in a flagrant violation of the electoral code of conduct to the Awami League’s Dhanmondi office in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir collects a party nomination form on behalf of party chief Khaleda Zia for the Feni-1 seat at the party’s headquarters in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

An aspirant receiving the BNP's nomination form from Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the party's Naya Paltan office in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Supporters pf aspirants throng the street in front of the BNP's Naya Paltan headquarters in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Singer Baby Naznin and film actor Helal Khan receiving the BNP's nomination form from Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir RIzvi at the party's Naya Paltan office in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Huge gatherings of BNP aspirants and their supporters create traffic congestion at Naya Paltan in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other policymakers of the party coming out of the old jailhouse on the Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka after meeting their chief Khaleda Zia. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir RIzvi at a news conference on Monday announcing rescinding of the expulsion orders of leaders who had been ousted after seeking reforms to the party. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A guest casts a test ballot at the electronic voting machine exhibition at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

A guest casts a test ballot at the electronic voting machine exhibition at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda attends an EVM exhibition at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Former Election Commissioner Sakhawat Hossain attends the inaugural programme of the electronic voting machine exhibition at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The chief election commissioner and other EC officials attended the inauguration of the electronic voting machine exhibition at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka on Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Jahangir Kabir Nanak submits his Awami League nomination form to the party’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader at the party headquarters in Dhanmondi on Monday. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda attends an exhibition of electronic voting machines at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on in Dhaka Monday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

A child labourer makes iron tools amid risky circumstances at a factory in Dhaka’s Keraniganj on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A child labourer makes iron tools amid risky circumstances at a factory in Dhaka’s Keraniganj on Monday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin