"In my view, it was a mistake," he said at a media briefing in Dhaka on Saturday, two weeks after the election. Kamal also said he would mount pressure on the BNP, a key ally of the Oikya Front, over the issue. "This is crystal clear.”Kamal expressed his regrets twice over the Jamaat’s participation in the polls. The BNP-led alliance secured eight seats in the election out of 299 seats. As a political partner of the BNP-led alliance, 25 leaders of Jamaat took part in the election with BNP’s electoral symbol ‘sheaf of paddy’, but could not win.

Source: bd News24 January 12, 2019 13:07 UTC