Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday said that they wanted local government polls before next general elections slated for mid-February.
A delegation of the party held a meeting with chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin at the EC headquarters Nirbachan Bhaban a day after the party got back its electoral symbol 鈥榮cale鈥�.
After the meeting at a press briefing, Jamaat鈥檚 assistant secretary general, Hamidur Rahan Azad told reporters that they told the chief election commissioner that they wanted local government elections before the next general elections as it would be held in a credible manner under the interim government.
Party鈥檚 chief of media and publicity Ehsan Mahbub Zubzer and central leader Jasim Uddin Sarker accompanied Hamidur Rahmman.
Hamidur said that if the local government elections were held under a political government, it was likely that the party in power would influence the polls to have their candidates won the positions in the local government bodies.
鈥楩or this, from the beginning we have been asking for holding local government elections first,鈥� Hamidur Rahman said.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on the day at a party programme iterated their demand for national elections first.
