Kolkata, Feb. 12 -- The Awami League on Thursday rejected Bangladesh's 13th National Parliamentary Election, terming it "illegal" and one-sided, accusing the current interim government under the Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus of being "unconstitutional".

Speaking to ANI in Kolkata, Awami League leader AFM Bahauddin Nasim said that a large part of the population was excluded from participating as the party was banned from contesting in the polls.

"These are one-sided elections announced by the illegal Election Commission of an illegal and unconstitutional government in Bangladesh. A section of the population of Bangladesh has been kept away from these elections. There is just one party in Bangladesh which is banned - Awami League. In the l...