Govt will be able to hold polls as soon as possible: EU MP

FE Team | Published: November 04, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

Visiting European Union (EU) Parliament member Robert Evans had expressed the hope that the caretaker government (CG) would be able to hold a free, fair and credible election 'as soon as possible, reports UNB.'
"We are watching the situation in Bangladesh very closely," Evans, chair of the South Asia Delegation at EU, told a press conference at a city hotel Saturday.
In reply to a question about present political situation, he observed an unusual situation prevailed in the country.
The press conference was arranged on the eve of a four-day 'British Fusion Food Festival' beginning today (Sunday) at Sheraton Hotel where top British-Bangladeshi chefs would present their cuisine. Evans will inaugurate the festival jointly organised by the Curry Life Magazine and Dhaka Sheraton Hotel.
He said Bangladeshi restaurant industry in Britain was very successful and the industry earned about 4.2 billion pound sterling a year. Organisers of the festival informed that the Bangladeshi food was very popular in Britain.
Currently, there were nearly 12,000 Bangladeshi restaurants in Britain, serving traditional curry meals for British families, the organisers said.
The chefs participating in the festival were all Bangladeshi origin. The chefs are Jamal Uddin Ahmed from Shozna Indian Cuisine (Kent), Mohan Miah from Bengal Brasserie (York), Atiqur Rahman from Exotic East (South Wales), Syed Zohorul Islam from the capital (County Durham) and Shahidur Rahman from the Raj Spice (Rowley Regis, West Midlands).
General manager of Dhaka Sheraton, Trevor Macdonald, among others, was present at the press conference.