India, Feb. 13 -- As Jamaat-e-Islami, the biggest rival of the Tarique Rahman-led Bangladesh Nationalist Party, trails far behind amid the ongoing vote count, the party tried until the last moment to woo voters in its favour, even by offering religious assurances as well as money.

On Thursday, the coalition headed by the party distributed pamphlets promising 15,000 Taka to voters. The pamphlets, accessed by NDTV, also said that if all members of a family voted for Jamaat, their afterlife would be "free of sin" and they would be granted "salvation from grave punishment," the report said.

The party even asked voters to prove that they voted for Jamaat's party chief Shafiqur Rahman, 67, by bringing a camera phone to the polling booth and t...