Dhaka, Aug. 17 -- National Citizen Party (NCP) Chief Organiser (South) Hasnat Abdullah declared on Saturday that no election would be acceptable without first altering the "rules of the game."

"It does not matter whether the polls are held in November or December. What matters is that the election must be for a Constituent Assembly," Hasnat said while addressing a discussion titled "Constituent Assembly Election in Implementation of the July Charter" at the party's temporary office in Banglamotor, Dhaka.

The NCP leader also claimed that the government had been "sold out" the day Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus travelled to London.

Criticising the current state of the media and bureaucracy, he remarked, "The media now works as the mouthpie...