Jamaat wants referendum in Nov

Bangladesh Jamaaat-e-Islam has said that they wants to hold the referendum in November.

“We’ve told them that the referendum and the national election are on two separate days…you, take preparation mentally for conducting these separately,” said Nayeb-e-Ameer Dr Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher while responding reporters after a meeting between a Jamaat delegation and the Commission in the capital.

Dr Taher said if the referendum and the national election are held in a single day simultaneously, it would undermine the importance of the reform or the July National Charter.

A five-member Bangladesh Jamaaat-e-Islam delegation, led by Dr Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, met the Election Commission at Nirbachan Bhaban on Monday.