Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Apurba Jahangir on Sunday said there has been no date from Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus regarding the national election yet, stressing that Education and Planning Adviser Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud’s comment is entirely his personal.
“It is fully his (Adviser Wahiduddin) personal opinion,” he said, clarifying from the CA’s press wing during a media briefing at Foreign Service Academy.
Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Saturday said he would like to see a politically elected government next year.
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"I think we'll see a politically elected government next year. This is my opinion, but I'm not sure what will happen," he told a conference organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).
Chief Adviser Prof 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 "free and fair" 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.
Prof 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.