BNP 'not satisfied' with BD poll timeline

One of Bangladesh's main political parties warned on Wednesday that unrest was brewing over the long wait for fresh elections following last year's overthrow of the South Asian nation's autocratic ex-premier.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), widely tipped to win the next poll, met with Yunus in the capital Dhaka in a fruitless effort to press him on the vote's timetable.

"We are not at all satisfied," BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters after the meeting.

"We made our position clear: if the election is not held by December, the political, economic, and social situation will take a turn for the worse," he said.

Alamgir said his party had extended its full support to the reforms spearheaded by the caretaker government, but that did not warrant delaying the election any further.