BNP party says irregularities in Bangladesh poll

DHAKA (Reuters) - A leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, lagging badly in unofficial results from a parliamentary election, said on Tuesday its supporters were kept from voting in various parts of the country.

"We have reports that BNP supporters were barred from coming to polls and also were driven away from polling stations in many places," BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed said in a news briefing broadcast on local television Tuesday night.

He said the party planned to file a formal complaint.

(Reporting by Anis Ahmed and Nizam Ahmed; Editing by Jerry Norton)