New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Nearly 12.7 crore Bangladeshi citizens are eligible to vote today in the high-stakes 13th Parliamentary election, which is expected to mark the country's transition after the 2024 student-led uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule.

Voting will be held across 299 seats of the parliament today in a two-way contest between the mainstream Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and an alliance of student leaders and Islamist groups led by Jamat-e-Islami.

The voting, which begins at 7.30 am amid tight security, will test whether one of the first "Gen-Z" political movements can translate into electoral success, or whether voters hand power back to the establishment. The BNP, which governed Bangladesh before Hasina, ...