Hasina unilaterally cannot decide reforms: Hamid
Thursday, 12 July 2007
Senior Awami League (AL) leader Abdul Hamid said Wednesday party president Sheikh Hasina cannot take unilateral decision on reforms, report agencies.
The former Jatiya Sangsad speaker told reporters at a briefing in his NAM flat that the council would finalise the reform proposals, if any.
"It is not possible to bring about any changes without Sheikh Hasina. Similarly, the chief too cannot do it without us," Hamid said.
He said it was wrong to equate Hasina with her political rival BNP chief Khaleda Zia.
On the so-called reform proposals presented by AL presidium members Abdur Razzak, Tofail Ahmed and Suranjit Sengupta, Hamid said it would suffice if they placed the proposals before the executive committee.
He termed Suranjit's reform proposal as "self contradictory" in which he proposed reverting to the 1972 constitutional and that the president should be vested with the executive power to dissolve the parliament.
On the three presidium members proposing that nobody should hold the seats of the party president and general secretary for more than two terms, Hamid said, "The three leaders only spoke their minds. They'd better thrash out the issues in the working committee meetings."
The former Jatiya Sangsad speaker told reporters at a briefing in his NAM flat that the council would finalise the reform proposals, if any.
"It is not possible to bring about any changes without Sheikh Hasina. Similarly, the chief too cannot do it without us," Hamid said.
He said it was wrong to equate Hasina with her political rival BNP chief Khaleda Zia.
On the so-called reform proposals presented by AL presidium members Abdur Razzak, Tofail Ahmed and Suranjit Sengupta, Hamid said it would suffice if they placed the proposals before the executive committee.
He termed Suranjit's reform proposal as "self contradictory" in which he proposed reverting to the 1972 constitutional and that the president should be vested with the executive power to dissolve the parliament.
On the three presidium members proposing that nobody should hold the seats of the party president and general secretary for more than two terms, Hamid said, "The three leaders only spoke their minds. They'd better thrash out the issues in the working committee meetings."