No justifiable reason to delay polls beyond Dec: Salahuddin

BNP senior leader Salahuddin Ahmed has said most reforms can be done within a month if there is consensus, emphasising that there is no valid reason to hold the election after December, reports UNB.

"We have been able to make it understand that there is not even a single mentionable reason to hold the election after December," he said while talking to reporters after coming out of the second phase of the talks with the Consensus Commission at the Foreign Service Academy auditorium in the capital on Monday.

The BNP leader also claimed they observed that almost all political parties proposed holding the election before December this year.

He expressed the hope that the Chief Adviser would now take into account the collective proposal of the political parties. "We hope that, as a symbol of national unity, he will act with complete neutrality, rising above personal attachment or emotion. The nation expects absolute impartiality from him," Salahuddin said.

He said they believe the polls can be held by December. "Before that, we can identify key reforms, particularly those related to the electoral process, which can be undertaken on an urgent basis and implemented through consensus."