I do not think it is decent to plan for the polls at this stage,” said Rizvi, the senior joint secretary general of BNP, at a press conference in Dhaka on Monday. Huq, who was elected the first mayor of Dhaka North in 2015, died on Thursday at a London hospital, where he was being treated for almost four months. The local government ministry issued an order declaring the post of Dhaka North City mayor vacant on Monday. During the press conference, Rizvi came down hard on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over her visit to Cambodia. He accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her team of looting the exchequer only to establish the names of their kin.

Source: bd News24 December 04, 2017 13:18 UTC