Law Minister resorts to lies in 16th amendment bill: Fakhrul

BNP accused Monday Law Minister Anisul Huq of resorting to falsehoods by providing distorted information in the ‘The Constitution (Sixteenth Amendment) Bill, 2014’ about the annulment of parliament’s power to remove judges.
 “The Law Minister Sunday told parliament that Ziaur Rahman had abolished parliament’s power to remove judges with the introduction of the chief-justice-led Supreme Judicial Council 1978,” said BNP acting secretary general spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, according to a news agency.
He further said: “But the fact is that the power of parliament to remove judges was in the original constitution of 1972. It had been curtailed through the fourth amendment by the then Awami League government to the constitution in 1975 and the power was conferred on the President,” headed. There was no need to resort to that falsehood by the Law Minister,” Fakhrul observed.
He made the remarks while talking to reporters after visiting injured Chandpur Sadar upazila BNP general secretary Khalilur Rahman at a city hospital.
Opposing the Bill, Fakhrul said such a law cannot be acceptable in any democratic system. “This parliament doesn’t represent people. It was elected through a farcical election.