BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today spoke at the National Press Club. Photo : BSS

DHAKA, Jan 21, 2025 (BSS) - BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today called for taking measures for holding elections after completing minimum reforms.

"We are not saying that we want elections just now. If the election is held following the minimum reforms, most of the existing problems will be solved," he said.

Mirza Fakhrul was addressing a discussion organized by the Zia Memorial Library on the occasion of the 89th birth anniversary of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman and the 12th founding anniversary of the Zia Memorial Library at the Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia Hall of the National Press Club here.

Mirza Fakhrul said, "I believe that our chief adviser will call us on these issues very soon and come to a solution. We will reach a consensus through discussion."

About the medical admission results, Mirza Fakhrul said, ''The results of the admission tests for medical colleges have been released. So many boys and girls have taken the tests, but out of them, probably 5,500 have got chance for admission in various medical colleges in the country. What will the rest do?"

"A sort of frenzy is going on in the field of education. No one is paying attention to it, nor is talking about it. Virtually no effort is being made to provide quality education," he added.

Mirza Fakhrul said, "We have many problems in Bangladesh. However, education system has been completely ruined. I don't think there is anything left of it. You start from primary school and go all the way to university, and you will see that the quality has gone so low."

He said that the education system needs to be reformed.

Chaired by Zia Memorial Library President Abdus Salam and moderated by former student leader Abdus Sattar Patwari, the discussion was attended by educationist Professor Mahbub Ullah, policy researcher Mahadi Amin, Open University Vice Chancellor Professor ABM Obaidul Islam, educationist Afroza Khanam Rita, journalist Amirul Islam Kagoji, teachers' leader Zakir Hossain, social activist Sayyid Abdullah, Zia Memorial Library's Zahir Dipti, Manjur Elahi, Kazi Zahirul Islam Bulbul and Hasan Al Arif, among others.