Bangladesh, Jan. 19 -- As the country moves closer to its 13th national parliamentary election, the Election Commission is finding itself under relentless political pressure, with delegations of major parties visiting the commission almost daily to lodge complaints over what they describe as bias, administrative failures and threats to a "level playing field."

The latest escalation came on Sunday, when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party formally accused some Election Commission officials of working in favour of a particular political party and raised the issue directly with Chief Election Commissioner A M M Nasir Uddin.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir went to the Election Building in Dhaka's Agargaon on Sunday afternoon,...