Dhaka, April 4 -- Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the 6th BIMSTEC Summit on Friday remarked that holding the national elections at the earliest possible is at the top of his government's agenda.

"I have assured our people that, once our mandate is fulfilled in the conduct of elections as well as the required reform is done, we shall hold a free, fair and participatory election," he said.

The chief adviser made the remarks while speaking at the 6th BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, as per a BSS report.

Highlighting the aspects of the July uprising in Bangladesh, he said in 1971, hundreds of thousands of ordinary women and men, children and youth made supreme sacrifice in a nine-month long genocide, fighting against a brutal...