All You Need To Know As Citizens Vote In Bangladesh Ahead Of Elections

Bangladesh will hold its crucial parliamentary elections today -- 18 months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year-old regime collapsed amid massive, nationwide protests. While an interim government took charge since, the period has been marked with protests, an uprising of hardline Islamic group, violence against minorities and a shift in the country's foreign policy that took it closer to Pakistan and China and further away from India. All that is now expected to change with a democratically elected government coming to power - which, many think, will be the Bangladesh National Party of Khaleda Zia. Since her recent death, the party is being led by her son Tarique Rahman, the front-runner for the Prime Minister's post.