The chief advisor said that the election date will be announced if the voter list is ready to reach the consensus of the country's reforms. Muhammad Yunus.
The chief advisor said this in a meeting with IMF Managing Director Crystalina Georgieva on the sidelines of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday.
He said that the dictatorial government has been overthrown by the student-crowd uprising. The present Bangladesh is a new country. After the formation of a new government, six commissions have been formed to recommend elections, civil administration, police, judiciary, anti-corruption and important reforms in the constitution.
The government will discuss the recommendations of the commission with the political parties. Yunus said that if there is a consensus on the reforms and the voter list is prepared, the election date will be announced.
IMF chief executive Kristalina Georgieva in this initiative. The lending agency will quickly ‘track’ the issue of financial support for this government, Georgieva said, "He has sent a team of the IMF to Bangladesh and the team is now in Dhaka. The team members will submit their report to the IMF Board of Directors next month."
Georgieva said the IMF board may start a new lending program for Bangladesh based on the party's report or that it could be launched early last year and could lend more loans to the existing support programme.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Krystalina Georgieva has termed Bangladesh as a ‘changed country’ and has promised to support the country's reform initiatives by calling the current Bangladesh ‘Bangladesh 2.0’.
The managing director of the IMF, the managing director of the IMF meeting with Yunus, expressed the support of the IMF and said, ‘This is another country, it is Bangladesh 2.0.’
Energy, electricity and transport advisor Fawzul Kabir Khan and Dr. were present in the meeting. Devpritha Bhattacharya. Debaprit emphasized on the support of the IMF's support to strengthen the balance of payments in the country, he said, adding that the role of IMF will be important in stabilizing the exchange rate (exchange rate).
