Dhaka, June 7 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has expressed disappointment over the Chief Adviser's announcement regarding the national election timeline, saying it has disheartened not just the BNP, but the entire nation.

"We have always demanded a prompt election and hoped that a date for holding it by December would be announced," he said while speaking to journalists at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport upon his return from Bangkok early Saturday.

Fakhrul said Chief Adviser Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus, in his address to the nation, has announced that the polls will be held in early April. "Undoubtedly, this has frustrated not only us but the whole nation," he said.

The BNP leader said their party's official sta...