JP to reject re-printed constitution if Islam, Bismillah erased: Ershad
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Jatiya Party (JP) will reject the newly printed Constitution if Islam and Bismillah are erased from it.
JP chairman Hossain Mohammad Ershad said this at a discussion at their Banani office in the city Monday, reports UNB.
"I had sacrificed a lot to protect the country's constitution. If Bismillah and Islam as State Religion are removed from the Constitution, we will never accept it," the JP chairman said.
City unit of the JP organised the discussion marking the 'Constitution Protection Day'. Incidentally, on this day in 1990 Ershad stepped down in the face of massive anti-autocracy upsurge.
Chaired by JP Vice-chairman ASM Faysal Chisti, the discussion was addressed, among others, by JP Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Hawladar, JP leaders Lili Chowdhury, ATM Fazle Rabbi, Mustofa Jamal Haider and Rezaul Karim.
Blaming the former chief justice and caretaker government chief Shahabuddin Ahmed, Mr Ershad said he administrated oath to the chief justice in accordance with the constitution, but when he (Shahabuddin) took office of the President in 1990, he kept the JP out of elections and politics.
Referring to his rule, he said only 14 student were killed during his last five years of the tenure, but after the general elections in 1991, more than 40 students were killed during five-year of the BNP regime.
"We have seen the nature of democracy in the country. The people want freedom as well as real democracy", he added.
JP chairman Hossain Mohammad Ershad said this at a discussion at their Banani office in the city Monday, reports UNB.
"I had sacrificed a lot to protect the country's constitution. If Bismillah and Islam as State Religion are removed from the Constitution, we will never accept it," the JP chairman said.
City unit of the JP organised the discussion marking the 'Constitution Protection Day'. Incidentally, on this day in 1990 Ershad stepped down in the face of massive anti-autocracy upsurge.
Chaired by JP Vice-chairman ASM Faysal Chisti, the discussion was addressed, among others, by JP Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Hawladar, JP leaders Lili Chowdhury, ATM Fazle Rabbi, Mustofa Jamal Haider and Rezaul Karim.
Blaming the former chief justice and caretaker government chief Shahabuddin Ahmed, Mr Ershad said he administrated oath to the chief justice in accordance with the constitution, but when he (Shahabuddin) took office of the President in 1990, he kept the JP out of elections and politics.
Referring to his rule, he said only 14 student were killed during his last five years of the tenure, but after the general elections in 1991, more than 40 students were killed during five-year of the BNP regime.
"We have seen the nature of democracy in the country. The people want freedom as well as real democracy", he added.