Dhaka, May 4 -- Mustafa Jamal Haider, the chief coordinator of the 12-Party alliance, says spending an extensive amount of time on reforms is not desirable.

Jamal urged authorities to bring political parties to points of agreement "as soon as possible" and leave proposals on which opinions are divided for later.

Jamal, the chairman of the Jatiya Party, led 11 other leaders of the alliance in the dialogue with the National Consensus Commission at the LD Hall of the parliament complex on Sunday.

He said ambivalence among political parties was natural, and added: "This is the beauty and excellence of democracy. But within that, we can reach a minimum consensus so that autocracy never arises again in future."

"At least, the rules of this ...