Dhaka, Nov. 14 -- Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has expressed dissatisfaction over the interim government's decision to hold the national referendum on the July National Charter on the same day as the parliamentary elections in February, saying the move "does not meet the people's aspirations."
In an immediate reaction delivered at a press briefing at the party's central office in Moghbazar at 3:30pm Thursday - an hour after Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus's televised address to the nation - Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar said the simultaneous scheduling of the election and referendum could create confusion and undermine the democratic spirit of reform.
"On behalf of Jamaat-e-Islami, I want to state very clearly that the Chief Adv...