Former caretaker government adviser Akbar Ali Khan on Sunday called upon both the ruling Awami Lague and Opposition BNP to find out an amicable formula, acceptable to both the parties, to end the ongoing political impasse. When asked about his reaction regarding Khaleda’s speech at the BNP-affiliated ‘Sammilito Peshajibi Parsishad’ convention on Sunday, he said that the opposition leader might not like the Prime Minister’s proposal.
“But they should immediately take measures to find out a mutually acceptable formula to hold a free, fair and credible election,” he added.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her address to the nation on Friday proposed an all-party interim government to conduct the upcoming parliamentary elections and hoped that opposition BNP would positively respond to her proposal.
But rejecting the PM’s offer, the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that there would be no election without a non-party, poll-time government to oversee it. “BNP will only go to election under a non-party and neutral government,” she said.
-With The Independent input
