Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the next election would be held in Bangladesh as per country’s constitution while four members of parliament of the British All-Party Parliamentary Group called on her.
‘The next election will be held as per the constitution,’ prime minister’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted the premier as saying while briefing reporters after the call on at Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka.
The four British MPs are - Rushanara Ali, Jonathan Reynolds, Mohammed Yasin and Tom Hunt.
According to the press secretary, the prime minister said the Election Commission of Bangladesh is very much independent.
‘We follow your Westminster type of democracy. We don’t have any problem if election observer comes,’ she told the British MPs.
Sheikh Hasina mentioned that Awami League, as a political party, has a long tradition of fighting for the restoration of the democracy from the military rulers in the past.
She said that the military rulers used to grab the state power using guns and then descended to politics after forming political parties.
Sheikh Hasina urged the British MPs to take initiative to stop Russia-Ukraine war, saying that as a result of sanction and counter sanction, countries like Bangladesh are suffering in many ways.
She said that food grains, essentials and edible oils used to come from Ukraine. ‘But due to the war, importing of those items are being hindered resulting in its price hike,’ she added.
The prime minister urged the UK entrepreneurs to come up with the investment in the 100 economic zones in Bangladesh.
