Dhaka, Feb. 19 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has remarked that efforts are underway to form a new political party by leveraging state privileges.

"We have supported the interim government. They are trying to move quickly to complete certain tasks and proceed toward the elections," Fakhrul said.

"But in the meantime, doubts have arisen among the public-doubts about whether they are genuinely committed to holding elections at all."

Speaking at a discussion organised by the student wing of the BNP, Chhatra Dal, at the Krishibid Institution auditorium in the capital on Wednesday, Fakhrul accused certain government advisors of engaging in tactics to establish a political entity while still benefiting from their positi...