Dhaka, June 13 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, during his meeting with the party's acting chairman, agreed to hold the next national election in mid-February next.

"Everybody was expecting that this meeting could be a turning point. We express our gratitude to Allah that this meeting has truly turned into a turning point," he said while talking to reporters at the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office after the meeting.

Fakhrul said Tarique proposed bringing the election date forward from April, as earlier announced by the Chief Adviser, since that time is not favourable for voting. "The entire nation noticed with immense joy that the Chief Adviser agreed to it, and they ...