Dhaka, Feb. 11 -- On the eve of the parliamentary election, Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin has addressed the nation, calling on citizens to go to polling centres fearlessly and exercise their right to vote.

He also urged everyone to accept the results of the democratic process, whatever they may be.

With the election and referendum set for Thursday, exactly one and a half years after the July Uprising, the CEC spoke to the nation on Wednesday evening.

He said, "[On Thursday], voting for one of the most important elections in our history will take place. At this historic moment, I pay my deepest respects to the martyrs of the Great Liberation War, and also remember those who fell in the July Uprising, whose blood has brough...