Announce polls schedule

The Awami League (AL) and Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday jointly demanded announcement of parliamentary election schedule and asked for holding the polls as per declared roadmap.
Talking to newsmen after their meeting, AL leader Tofail Ahmed and CPB leader Mujahidul Islam Selim said confusions run in people's mind about holding the election in time and announcement of election schedule will remove the confusions.
The bilateral meeting was held at Gulshan residence of acting AL President Zillur Rahman.
The leaders of the two parties also demanded withdrawal of the state of emergency ahead of the parliamentary polls as well as trial of the "fundamentalists and war criminals".
Tofail said the government should not do anything that may delay the electoral process.
Talking to the reporters, CPB General Secretary Selim said they discussed the current political situation of the country and reached consensus on some issues.
AL leaders Amir Hossain Amu, Abdur Razzaq, Suranjit Sengupta, Motia Chowdhury, Kazi Zafarullah and Syed Ashraful Islam and CPB leaders Manjurul Ahsan Khan, MM Akash and Shahidullah Chowdhury, among others, were present at the meeting.