Hasina plans to return on Thursday

Published November 4, 2008

DHAKA, Nov 3: Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina will return to Dhaka on Thursday to lead her party in next month’s parliamentary election.

“She is coming home on Nov 6 to begin the formal campaign for the Dec 18 election and help restore democracy,” Syed Ashraful Islam, acting general secretary of her Awami League, told reporters on Monday. Hasina went to the United States on medical parole.

Chief Election Commissioner A.T.M. Shamsul Huda said in a national broadcast on Sunday evening that the commission would ensure the polls were free, fair and credible, and that troops would be deployed to provide security to voters.—AFP

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