Bangladesh goes to polls on Sunday as incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League-led coalition looks for a third consecutive term. The JOF is led by 84-year-old Kamal Hossain, who is now its leading face in the absence of Zia, who is serving a 17-year jail term on corruption charges. Jatiya Oikya Front is an alliance of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party , Hossain-led Jatiya Oikya Prokriya, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, and Nagorik Oikya.

While Hasina’s Awami League came to power in 2009 after a resounding win over BNP, its subsequent term in 2014 was a cakewalk as the Zia faction boycotted the elections. The United Opposition refused to participate in the electoral process after the government crackdown on its activists and house imprisonment of its leader Khaleda Zia.