All-party JS committee soon on 5th amendment verdict: PM
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday disclosed that an all-party committee would be formed within 2-4 days to prepare a draft of amendments to the Constitution in the light of the Supreme Court verdict on the 5th amendment, reports UNB.
The committee will be formed during the current session of Parliament, she said at a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee at Ganobhaban.
On February 2 this year, the Supreme Court dismissed two petitions contesting the High Court verdict that declared illegal the 5th constitution amendment.
On August 29 in 2005, the High Court division bench comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice ATM Fazle Kabir delivered the landmark judgment, declaring "illegal" the regimes of Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed, Abu Sada't Mohammad Sayem and Maj Gen Ziaur Rahman since August 15, 1975 changeover until April 9, 1979. Addressing the ALCWC meeting, Hasina, also the president of Awami League, lamented that Bangladesh could not achieve its desired development, as democracy was not allowed to run uninterruptedly by the military rulers.
She said the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the military rulers had mutilated the Constitution to meet their evil designs.
"Now the Constitution has to be amended in the light of the apex court verdict as the military dictators distorted the constitution after 1975," she said in her opening remarks at the meeting. The Prime Minister asked the Awami League leaders and workers to give make their best efforts to further strengthen the foundation of democracy in the country.
"Our hard-earned democracy has to be given a strong foundation," she said, recalling the days that preceded the December 28, 2008 parliamentary elections.
Hasina said she was arrested without any warrant and later she was threatened not to return home from abroad after the political changeover of 1/11.
"They threatened me, put pressure on me to compromise with them, but I never stepped aside from my demand of holding parliamentary elections," she said.
Hasina said people through their massive mandate in the last general election have reposed a great responsibility in the present government.
"People have kept their confidence and trust in us. Now it is our duty to honour their confidence," she said and urged her party leaders to work hard to fulfill the people's aspirations. The Prime Minister expressed her optimism that the government would be able to gradually resolve all the problems facing the people. About the BDR mutiny, she said the trial of the BDR mutineers would be completed in a transparent way as the investigation had been completed fairly.
Awami League's district level leaders also attended the meeting, which was arranged to review the party's organisational activities and the various activities of the government.
The committee will be formed during the current session of Parliament, she said at a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee at Ganobhaban.
On February 2 this year, the Supreme Court dismissed two petitions contesting the High Court verdict that declared illegal the 5th constitution amendment.
On August 29 in 2005, the High Court division bench comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice ATM Fazle Kabir delivered the landmark judgment, declaring "illegal" the regimes of Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed, Abu Sada't Mohammad Sayem and Maj Gen Ziaur Rahman since August 15, 1975 changeover until April 9, 1979. Addressing the ALCWC meeting, Hasina, also the president of Awami League, lamented that Bangladesh could not achieve its desired development, as democracy was not allowed to run uninterruptedly by the military rulers.
She said the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the military rulers had mutilated the Constitution to meet their evil designs.
"Now the Constitution has to be amended in the light of the apex court verdict as the military dictators distorted the constitution after 1975," she said in her opening remarks at the meeting. The Prime Minister asked the Awami League leaders and workers to give make their best efforts to further strengthen the foundation of democracy in the country.
"Our hard-earned democracy has to be given a strong foundation," she said, recalling the days that preceded the December 28, 2008 parliamentary elections.
Hasina said she was arrested without any warrant and later she was threatened not to return home from abroad after the political changeover of 1/11.
"They threatened me, put pressure on me to compromise with them, but I never stepped aside from my demand of holding parliamentary elections," she said.
Hasina said people through their massive mandate in the last general election have reposed a great responsibility in the present government.
"People have kept their confidence and trust in us. Now it is our duty to honour their confidence," she said and urged her party leaders to work hard to fulfill the people's aspirations. The Prime Minister expressed her optimism that the government would be able to gradually resolve all the problems facing the people. About the BDR mutiny, she said the trial of the BDR mutineers would be completed in a transparent way as the investigation had been completed fairly.
Awami League's district level leaders also attended the meeting, which was arranged to review the party's organisational activities and the various activities of the government.