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[ALOCHONA] 15th amendment pushes country into deep crisis: citizens

15th amendment pushes country into deep crisis: citizens

A group of civil society members on Saturday said that the 15th amendment to the constitution, which not only violated the spirit of the Liberation War but also contained contradictory provisions, has pushed the country into deep crisis.

Speaking at a round-table discussion at a city hotel, the speakers suggested that the ruling party should re-write the amendments on the basis of a consensus among different social, political and cultural groups, including the main opposition party.

They also suggested that the two top political leaders – Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia – should work together setting aside personal interests to find out an amicable solution to the crisis.

'The 15th amendment is very difficult to understand as it contains a number of contradictory provisions,' said legal expert Rafiq-ul-Huq, adding that such an amendment could only be made in the interest of a particular political party.

The Old Chhatra League Foundation organised the round-table discussion on 'the 15th amendment and present state of politics' with Noor-e- Alam Siddique in the chair where lawyer Rokan Uddin Mahmud, journalist Reazuddin Ahmed, lawyer Shahdin Malik, professor Asif Nazrul, lawyer Sarah Hossain, journalists Nurul Kabir, Mizanur Rahman Khan and Peer Habibur Rahman, former army chief Harun-or-Rashid, former BCL leader Rafia Akhtar Dolly, left leader Abdullah Sarker, freedom fighter Mahbubur Rab Sadi and former state minister for foreign affairs Abul Hassan Chowdhury took part in the discussion moderated by Awami league lawmaker Mahmudur Rahman Manna.

'The constitution has been amended fifteen times over the last four decades and if the trend continues for personal and party interest, nothing would remain of the constitution in the end,' said Rafique-ul Huq, adding that it was difficult to understand how parliament could pass such an amendment.He urged the two top political leaders to think of the country's interests rather than their personal and party interests.

Rafique-ul-Huq said that a 'child's game' had been played over the caretaker government provision which stunned many. 'Parliament made the amendment without waiting for the full judgment of the court, which indicates that personal and party interests were behind the decision,' he said. The veteran legal expert made a strong appeal to the prime minister and the leader of the opposition to work together setting aside their personal rivalries for the sake of democracy and for the greater interest of the country.

Senior lawyer Rokan Uddin Mahmud said that the 15th amendment did not reflect the people's aspirations rather it was a reflection of arrogance of power. 'The 15th amendment, especially abolition of the [election-time] caretaker government system divided the nation and caused a tense situation in politics,'  said Mahmud, adding that the special committee formed to amend the constitution had ignored the suggestions of different professional bodies even after taking their opinions on the issue.

'Under the circumstances it seems the country is headed for situation like 2006,' he said adding that in such an atmosphere free, fair and credible elections was impossible. He was critical of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party for not attending the special committee's meeting and keeping away from the process of the amendment. 'The government should re-write the amendments for the sake of democracy,' he added.

News Today editor Reazuddin Ahmed said, 'None is happy with the amendment. The ruling party general secretary also said he was not happy. So it is meaningless to keep the amendment.'

Terming the 15th amendment unprecedented, lawyer Shahdin Malik said that although secularism had been restored by the amendment, it retained 'Islam as the state religion' which was contradictory.

He also said that the nature of illegal takeover of state power was not defined clearly in the amendment and nothing was said about the trial process of such charges. He was critical of the provisions which said some Articles of the constitution could never be changed and warned that the court could declare the amendments illegal if it finds any inconsistencies in them.

Dhaka University Professor Asif Nazrul termed 'fascist' the provisions in Articles 7 (A) and 7 (B) which he said severely curtailed the citizens' freedom of expression. 'What Khaleda Zia said about the constitution was political rhetoric and she did not mean she would throw away the charter so it could not be considered as treason,' he said, adding that if Khaleda's remarks amounted to treason, 'all participants in this discussion could be charged with sedition.' He also said that the articles would encourage illegal military takeover.

Terming a number of provisions, including secularism and state religion contradictory, lawyer Sarah Hossain said that they did not want to throw the constitution into dustbin but these provisions should be consigned to the scrapheap.

New Age editor Nurul Kabir said that the contents of the 15th amendments were far from the spirit of the Liberation War and the amendment was a manifestation of moral and political bankruptcy of Awami League. 'Bangladesh needs to re-write the constitution to introduce a genuine representative democracy, egalitarian economy and secular culture,' he said, adding that instead of throwing the constitution into dustbin, it should be preserved as an example of poor intellectual exercise and politics of convenience.

Journalist Mizanur Rahman Khan said that the provisions that did not allow any amendment to at least six dozens of Articles could not be accepted.

Former army chief Harun-or-Rashid said that Bismillah had been retained in the constitution to mollify a particular group and called for repeal of the amendment.

Journalist Peer Habibur Rahman said that if criticism of the constitution was treason, the co-chair of the special committee to amend constitution should face the same charge for not signing in original constitution of 1972.

Abul Hassan Chowdhury called for full restoration of the constitution of 1972 to uphold the spirit of the Liberation War.

http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/frontpage/29033.html
http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-08-07/news/176238
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[ALOCHONA] BNP's popular and democratic leaders....

BNP's popular and democratic leaders....

 

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[ALOCHONA] Re: Awami League helped by bags of Indian cash triumphed in elections

Mohammad Munshi in FaceBook:

If bags of Indian money and advice were given they all went to Gen. Moin U. Ahmed who manipulated the election process in 2008. He should be brought back to Bangladesh and questioned for his role during 1/11 and how he engineered the 2008 elections against the BNP alliance parties. He had an obvious motive in manipulating the elections as a BNP victory would have seen him brought to trial for treachery and his links to India would have been exposed. The Economist has only revealed part of the story and a more thorough investigation into the period from 2007-2008 would reveal the rest of the conspiracy to hijack Bangladesh democracy. Since it was the British, the Americans and India who were behind the 1/11 plan the international community could be said to be in direct collusion in all this and their declarations about the 2008 elections hold no water.

India's objective in closer relations with Bangladesh is merely to treat the country as a captive market and obtain a strategic advantage over China. India's ambition is to be the dominating and hegemonic power in South Asia and Bangladesh will have a subservient and servile role and find its independence and sovereignty increasingly diminished. These are not the goals upon which the Liberation War of 1971 was fought. The territory that now constitutes Bangladesh has never accepted subjugation and this has been the case from the Mughal period to the British Raj and then during the short period of Pakistan but that attitude of fierce resistance has now utterly changed.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

Bags of Indian cash: Economist report  may be true



http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/08/06/97556

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

Elephant Embrace

This week's Economist has a rather intriguing article on Indo-Bangla relations. Full article over the fold. I'm not sure whether posting this makes me a dalal or part of the dreaded 25% in your eyes, but as I won't be making any further comments on this thread, please feel free to share your thoughts on my ulterior motives.

Some interesting excerpts:

"Ever since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cash and advice, triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with India have blossomed."

I know Bangladesh is little more than a banana-republic when viewed from the pinnacle of straight-dealing that is British journalism at the moment, but that "bags of cash" thing is a serious allegation. What is the basis for it?

As a result, officials this week chirped that relations are now "very excellent". They should get better yet. India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, will visit early in September to sign deals …

Manmohan Singh's gaffe is not mentioned even once in this article. Which indicates to me that the writer possibly spends more time in Delhi than Dhaka, though I have no way of confirming that.

Some Bangladeshis fret that if India tries to overcome its own logistical problems by, in effect, using Bangladesh as a huge military marshalling yard, reprisals from China would follow.

Who are these Bangladeshis and when can I take them out for a drink/dinner to express my gratitude for Realist thinking? Stand up and identify yourself good ladies or gentlemen!

Mrs Zia's family dynasty, also corrupt, is as against India as Sheikh Hasina's is for it.

A bit of reading between the lines: note that "also". Earlier in the article, the author says, "Corruption flourishes at levels astonishing even by South Asian standards". The allegation of corruption against the Awami League is in the passive voice, without a subject. Yet, the Zia "family dynasty" is corrupt "also". Who exactly is the author trying to point to and has s/he been hanging out with Mahmudur Rahman too long?

All in all: very intriguing. One does not really know what to make of these haphazard allegations and the glaring lacunae about Indian attitudes to Bangladesh, as highlighted by Manmohan Singh's comments. The only part which I dispute without reservation is its characterisation of the claim, that Sheikh Shaheb is the "greatest Bengali (sic) of the millenium", as "propaganda".

That's actually the closest this Awami League government gets to fact.

http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/07/29/elephant-embrace/

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Growing geopolitical interests push India to seek better relations nearer home

Jul 30th 2011 | DHAKA | from the print edition

NOT much noticed by outsiders, long-troubled ties between two neighbours sharing a long border have taken a substantial lurch for the better. Ever since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cash and advice, triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with India have blossomed. To Indian delight, Bangladesh has cracked down on extremists with ties to Pakistan or India's home-grown terrorist group, the Indian Mujahideen, as well as on vociferous Islamist (and anti-Indian) politicians in the country. India feels that bit safer.

Now the dynasts who rule each country are cementing political ties. On July 25th Sonia Gandhi (pictured, above) swept into Dhaka, the capital, for the first time. Sharing a sofa with Sheikh Hasina (left), the prime minister (and old family friend), the head of India's ruling Congress Party heaped praise on her host, notably for helping the poor. A beaming Sheikh Hasina reciprocated with a golden gong, a post

humous award for Mrs Gandhi's mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. In 1971 she sent India's army to help Bangladeshis, led by Sheikh Hasina's father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, throw off brutal Pakistani rule.

As a result, officials this week chirped that relations are now "very excellent". They should get better yet. India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, will visit early in September to sign deals on sensitive matters like sharing rivers, sending electricity over the border, settling disputed patches of territory on the 4,095km (2,500-mile) frontier and stopping India's trigger-happy border guards from murdering migrants and cow-smugglers. Mr Singh may also deal with the topic of trade which, smuggling aside, heavily favours India, to Bangladeshi ire.

Most important, however, is a deal on setting up a handful of transit routes across Bangladesh, to reach India's remote, isolated north-eastern states. These are the "seven sisters" wedged up against the border with China.

On the face of it, the $10 billion project will develop poor areas cut off from India's booming economy. The Asian Development Bank and others see Bangladeshi gains too, from better roads, ports, railways and much-needed trade. In Dhaka, the capital, the central-bank governor says broader integration with India could lift economic growth by a couple of percentage points, from nearly 7% already.
Our interactive map displays the various territorial claims of India, Pakistan and China from each country's perspective

India has handed over half of a $1 billion soft loan for the project, and the money is being spent on new river-dredgers and rolling stock. Bangladesh's rulers are mustard-keen. The country missed out on an earlier infrastructure bonanza involving a plan to pipe gas from Myanmar to India. China got the pipeline instead.

Yet the new transit project may be about more than just development. Some in Dhaka, including military types, suspect it is intended to create an Indian security corridor. It could open a way for army supplies to cross low-lying Bangladesh rather than going via dreadful mountain roads vulnerable to guerrilla attack. As a result, India could more easily put down insurgents in Nagaland and Manipur. The military types fear it might provoke reprisals by such groups in Bangladesh.

More striking, India's army might try supplying its expanding divisions parked high on the border with China, in Arunachal Pradesh. China disputes India's right to Arunachal territory, calling it South Tibet. Some Bangladeshis fret that if India tries to overcome its own logistical problems by, in effect, using Bangladesh as a huge military marshalling yard, reprisals from China would follow.

Such fears are not yet widespread. Indeed, India has been doing some things right in countering longstanding anti-Indian suspicion and resentment among ordinary Bangladeshis. Recent polling by an American university among students found a minority hostile to India, whereas around half broadly welcomed its rise. A straw poll at a seminar of young researchers at a think-tank in Dhaka this week suggested a similar mood—though anger remained over Indian border shootings.

For India, however, the risk is that it is betting too heavily on Sheikh Hasina, who is becoming increasingly autocratic. Opposition boycotts of parliament and general strikes are run-of-the-mill. Corruption flourishes at levels astonishing even by South Asian standards. A June decision to rewrite the constitution looks to be a blunt power grab, letting the government run the next general election by scrapping a "caretaker" arrangement. Sheikh Hasina is building a personality cult around her murdered father, "the greatest Bengali of the millennium", says the propaganda.

Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive. Similarly, war-crimes trials over the events of 1971 are to start in a few weeks. They are being used less as a path to justice than to crush an opposition Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami.

It hardly suggests that India's ally has a wholly secure grasp on power. A tendency to vote incumbents out may yet unseat Sheikh Hasina in 2013, or street violence might achieve the same. She would then be replaced by her nemesis, Khaleda Zia, of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Mrs Zia's family dynasty, also corrupt, is as against India as Sheikh Hasina's is for it. But India's habit of shunning meetings with Mrs Zia and her followers may come to look short-sighted. When he visits Bangladesh in September, Mr Singh, the Gandhi family retainer, would do well to make wider contact if India's newly improving relations are not one day to take another big dive for the worse.

http://www.economist.com/node/21524917/print

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