Dhaka, June 18 -- The Jamaat-e-Islami has returned to the National Consensus Commission's meeting as Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus made a phone call to its chief and "promised that he would remain neutral", the party's senior leader Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher has said.

No Jamaat member participated in Tuesday's meeting called by the Consensus Commission. Later, the party said that it had "boycotted" the event.

Jamaat believes the joint declaration issued following the Jun 3 meeting in London between the chief advisor and the BNP's Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman was "inappropriate".

The party's Assistant Secretary General AHM Hamidur Rahman Azad told bdnews24.com on Tuesday that the party had boycotted the session in protest.

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