Moshtaq, Zia, Ershad regimes illegal: Inu

Information Minster Hasanul Haque Inu Wednesday said that the governments of Moshtaq Ahmed, Ziaur Rahman and HM Ershad have become illegal, after the abrogation of the fifth and seventh amendments to the Constitution, reports BSS.
He was speaking as the chief guest at the annual general meeting (AGM) of Dhaka Sub-editors' Council (DSEC) at the National Press Club.
Inu said that Khaleda Zia has developed three bizarre theories. The first one is that Ziaur Rahman is the first president; the second one is that she was born on August 15; and the third one is that Ziaur Rahman proclaimed independence.
The Information Minister remarked that Khaleda Zia may afford to speak erratically but the media and society cannot do so. Khaleda's theories have a common theme and that is to distort the nation's history, particularly of the Liberation War and make it "controversial" in the process.
He asked everybody to be alert against such mischief. The Minister, who is also the president of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), further said that it is time for political development.
"We must fight back militancy, rumors and anarchy in the name of democratic movement', he added.
Explaining the role of the Fourth Estate, he said that they must remain ever vigilant against rumormongering and other forms of subversion.
The Prime Minster's Media Advisor, Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, who attended the program as special guest, said that that the Newspaper Employees' Services Condition Act of 1974 that the Four-Parties' Alliance had abrogated, surreptiously, should be restored, immediately.
The meeting was presided over by the president of the Sub-editors' Council Enayet Ferdaus. The general meeting was followed by an election in the afternoon to elect a new committee.