About 5,000 protesters demanding electoral reform took to the streets of Bangladesh's capital for a third-straight day Tuesday, after violent clashes with riot police left one dead and dozens injured a day before.

The alliance of 14 political parties, led by the main opposition Awami League party, began an indefinite, nationwide strike Sunday for the removal of election officials they call biased to ensure balloting set for January will be free and fair.

Outside the capital Dhaka, demonstrators continued to block highways and rail tracks, private TV station ATN Bangla reported. The capital has been cut off from the rest of the country since Sunday.

More than 5,000 demonstrators gathered in central Dhaka shouting, "We want corrupt election officials to go," and "Victory is ours."

"We shall not leave the streets until the election officials quit," said Tofayel Ahmed, an Awami League leader.

Rallies took place not far from the site where one demonstrator was killed and dozens injured in clashes with riot police Monday. No violence was immediately reported Tuesday.

Similar demonstrations took place in five other areas in Dhaka, a city of 10 million people. Authorities deployed 15,000 security forces to keep order.

The opposition alliance wants the resignations of Chief Election Commissioner M. A. Aziz and his three deputies, accusing them of favoring former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's four-party coalition government. Aziz denies the allegations and has refused to step down.

The Awami League's main rival, Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, meanwhile, announced it also will hold rallies Tuesday.

"We will hold peaceful demonstrations across the country to protest the alliance's undemocratic, violent protests," said party spokesman Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan.

Late Monday, members of the 14-party alliance met with four advisers to the caretaker government that will oversee the elections to apprise them about its demands.

"They invited us to talk about the latest political situation. We told them about our demands to ensure free and fair polls," Jalil said. "They said they will evaluate our demands and let us know their solution soon."

The advisers were to sit Tuesday with representatives of the four parties that formed Zia's coalition government, Bhuiyan said.

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse about 5,000 demonstrators Monday after they started throwing stones and smashing vehicles near a posh hotel for defying the strike.

Two demonstrators were injured when a police van knocked them over as it sped away to avoid a mob, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said in a statement. One of the two later died in a hospital.