Dhaka, June 18 -- BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday expressed the hope that the interim government will quickly implement the promises it made regarding the national election.

"We hope that the government will soon live up to its pledge to hold the election (in mid-February)," he said while talking to reporters after paying homage to BNP founder Ziaur Rahman, along with the leaders of the newly formed committee members of the Narsingdi district unit BNP.

Rizvi said it is necessary to give democracy a solid and institutional foundation to prevent the ugly rise of autocracy.

If elected to power, he said, their party would run the country in consultation with all political parties that joined hands...