Dhaka, April 16 -- The Jamaat-e-Islami is unwilling to wait until June 2026 for the general election, the party's chief Shafiqur Rahman has said.

He put forward the party's stance to hold the 13th parliamentary election before the next Ramadan, stressing the prospect of monsoon and natural disasters.

The party's chief held a meeting with Nicole Chulick, the US deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, at the residence of the US Deputy Chief of Mission in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, Shafiqur, who recently met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the United Kingdom, said: "They [the US delegation] only wanted to know about our stance on the election. We have said tha...