Dhaka, June 13 -- The National Citizen Party (NCP) has criticised the move to set Bangladesh's election timeline through a meeting in the UK, calling it a "betrayal" of the 2024 mass uprising and warning it could trigger a new one.

Speaking in Dhaka on Friday, NCP Chief Coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary said the decision to fix a poll date without national consensus "ignores the public will and takes the country backwards".

"This kind of meeting on foreign soil is an insult to the blood of the martyrs of the mass uprising, while the injured still lie in hospitals," he said at the party office in Banglamotor.

Nasiruddin's remarks came hours after BNP's Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman met Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus in London for 90 minutes...