The transitional government of Bangladesh is set to arrange the next general election by December this year, a senior leader of a major political party said Monday.
As per an Anadolu report, a delegation from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by its secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, met in the capital Dhaka with the head of the interim government, Muhammad Yunus, expressing the consensus among political parties for holding the polls as early as possible.
“The transitional government has assured us of arranging the election very soon. The chief adviser (Yunus) and others present at the meeting (from the government side) said they are working to hold the election by December this year,” Alamgir told reporters after the meeting.
He said he believes that a roadmap will be presented by the government soon.
“What we have been saying repeatedly is that this government is a transitional government, so we have once again urged them to hold early elections,” Alamgir said, adding they spoke about holding early polls after completing minimum reforms.
But the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement, which led the uprising that ended the 15-year-rule of Sheikh Hasina, the country’s longest-serving PM, in August last year, has insisted on the implementation of major reforms, saying Hasina’s rule completely politicised them and reforms are necessary for closing the path for the emergence of a possible fascist regime in the future.