Bangladesh's opposition confirmed it would boycott a general election scheduled for January 5 ahead of the final deadline for nominations later Monday, plunging the volatile country into political uncertainty. "There is no question of us filing nominations for the January 5 election under the present circumstances. We're not going to take part in the January 5 elections," Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a vice president of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), told AFP. Monday is the last day for nominations with the final cutoff at 05:00pm (1100 GMT).