In recent weeks other poll candidates have reported receiving similar threats:
- Dec 5: Begum Motia Chowdhury, an Awami League candidate in the polls, received a threat from the banned Islamist Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen group. The group warned that Motia, a former agriculture minister, would face the consequences unless she stopped talking tough against terrorism, especially about Islamists seeking to turn Muslim-majority Bangladesh into a sharia-based state.
- Dec 7: Awami League joint general secretary Obaidul Qader alleged that an unknown caller threatened to kill him if he does not "stay away from the election". "The caller also threatened 'to teach me a good lesson', for breaking up Pakistan through taking part in the Liberation War," Qader claimed.
