US Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Richard R. Verma has said it is for the people of Bangladesh to decide when a new election will be held and how long the interim government will stay. “That is for the people of Bangladesh to decide how and when they are going to hold a new election and how long the transitional (interim) government will be in place,” he said while responding to a question at an event at Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. on Monday.