<span style="color: #222222;">In Bangladesh, Election Commission has rejected jailed former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's plea to contest December 30 polls. The poll body spokesperson said yesterday that the commission rejected her petition by 4-1 votes. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Bangladesh High Court had earlier issued an order disqualifying 73-year-old Zia, now serving a 10-year prison term in two corruption cases, from contesting elections. It said, people jailed for more than two years with their appeals pending in court cannot fight elections.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The opposition BNP leader has been in prison since February when a lower court sentenced her to a five-year term in the first of the two graft cases. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Zia had filed nomination papers from three constituencies, two in northwestern Bogra and one in southeastern Feni.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Election is crucial for Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party(BNS), which boycotted the 2014 polls demanding a neutral non-party government. </span>