Staff Reporter:
Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to the chief adviser, has said that the 13th parliamentary election will be held at the appropriate time and thus the next five to six days are very crucial in determining the country’s political trajectory.
“You can be certain of one thing that the national election will take place without delay. The election will not be delayed even a day by the time Prof Yunus announced earlier,” he said while addressing a programme in Dhaka on Thursday.
The chief adviser initially announced that the national election would be held in early April next year and later, after a meeting in London, he said that the election would take place in February of the same year, Shafiqul said.
“We are still on the stance and it won’t be a day late,” he said while addressing the programme organised by Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters’ Forum held at the media centre of the administrative headquarters of the government.
Clearing the government stance over the ambiguity over the election, Shafiqul said the upcoming general election will be held in festive mode.
Claiming that every election marks some incidents of violence, he said that the interim government is working to bring the electoral violence to zero level.
