Amendment to Constitution
BNP to remove changes if voted to power
The opposition BNP holds a rally in front of its Naya Paltan office in the city yesterday protesting the ruling Awami League's alleged involvement in recent share market scam. ( Story on Page 2)Photo: STAR
Leaders of main opposition BNP yesterday asked the government to refrain from amending the constitution saying it has no jurisdiction to amend the charter and BNP will declare the changes null and void if voted to power. Blaming ruling party men for the recent manipulation in the share market, they also stated BNP will bring to book all those involved in the scam. They were addressing a rally organised in front of the party’s central office at Nayapaltan to protest the stockmarket scam. “Quit the power and form a constitutional assembly through a fresh election to make necessary amendments to the constitution,” party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asked the government while addressing the rally. People will not accept any change in the constitution without BNP’s participation, he added. Mirza Alamgir also demanded the government give compensation to small investors who lost their capital during the slide in the share market. Party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said the government showed absolute failure in all sectors. “They should quit right now making way for a midterm election to be held under a neutral caretaker government. Otherwise people will force them to step down through mass movement,” warned Mosharraf. Referring to a probe report on the stockmarket scam, another standing committee member MK Anwar said 60 persons were involved in the incident. BNP will identify and bring to justice each of them who plundered money from the capital market. Party leaders Osman Farruk, Abdullah Al Noman, Fazlur Rahman, Zainul Abdin Farroque, among others, addressed the rally. Different district units of the party handed over memorandums to deputy commissioners demanding punishment of individuals involved in the scam.
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