Dhaka, April 26 -- e-Islami wants a bicameral parliament in Bangladesh with five-year tenure, said its Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher on Saturday.

"We've agreed on the bicameral parliament issue" he said at a press briefing during the lunch break of talks with the National Consensus Commission at the LD Hall of the Jatiya Sangsad Complex.

He said there were proposals to reduce Parliament and Presidential tenures to four years from five years. "But we told them that it wouldn't be right. The tenures should be of five years," said Taher.

A 10-member Jamaat delegation, led Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, participated in the discussion that began at 10:30am with Vice Chairman of the National Consensus Commission Prof Ali Riaz in ...