Dhaka, Dec. 11 -- Ahead of the announcement of the schedule for the 13th parliamentary election and referendum, the BNP has reiterated that its Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman is returning to Bangladesh "very soon".

Speaking at the Krishibid Institution in Dhaka on Thursday morning, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said: "Since all of Bangladesh is present here today, and our leaders are present, I want to inform you that our leader will be among us very soon."

"The day our leader comes to us, the day he sets foot in Bangladesh, that day all of Bangladesh should tremble. That day we will hopefully change the face of all of Bangladesh."

Party leaders have recently been saying that Tarique, who has been in exile in the UK...