Ex-PM Zia’s BNP demands polls by August
Former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday demanded that the general election be held by July-August this year, refuting interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s stance to stage it by the year-end or mid-2026. “There is...
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Former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday demanded that the general election be held by July-August this year, refuting interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s stance to stage it by the year-end or mid-2026.
“There is no reason to delay the election that much,” said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir after an overnight meeting of the party’s standing committee that was chaired virtually by acting BNP chairperson Tarique Rahman from London.
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