Bangladesh interim government chief adviser鈥檚 deputy press secretary Apurba Jahangir on Sunday said there has been no date from chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus regarding the national election yet, stressing that education and planning adviser Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud鈥檚 comment is entirely his personal.
鈥業t is fully his (adviser Wahiduddin) personal opinion,鈥� he said, clarifying from the CA鈥檚 press wing during a media briefing at Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka.
Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Saturday said he would like to see a politically elected government next year.
鈥業 think we鈥檒l see a politically elected government next year. This is my opinion, but I鈥檓 not sure what will happen,鈥� he told a conference organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said reform was the key word of the July-August student-led mass uprising and his government is committed to carrying out major reforms before holding a 鈥榝ree and fair鈥� election.
He said the interim government would act as a facilitator of the reform process and has set up 15 reform commissions so far to fix key institutions left broken by the dictatorship of Sheikh Hasina.
Professor Yunus made the remarks when Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, an adviser to the IMF and World Bank and a former head of UNDP, met him at the State Guest House Jamuna.
