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Says SCBA president

22 September 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Khandker Mahbub Hossain yesterday demanded the government quit immediately to hold a midterm polls under a non-party caretaker government. “An autocratic government, which is now running the country, has increased the price of fuels pushing the country people into severe sufferings. If this government does not step down immediately, the people's rage won't give any chance to escape,” he said. The SCBA leader was addressing a rally organised by a group of opposition lawyers at the main gate of the Supreme Court in support of the countrywide hartal enforced by BNP and its allies yesterday to protest price hike of fuels. Khandker Mahbub Hossain, also an adviser to the BNP chairperson, alleged that the present government has been using law enforcers to thwart the opposition's movement against it. Earlier yesterday, pro-BNP lawyers' platform Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum in collaboration with Islamic Lawyers' Council, a body of pro-Jamaat-e-Islami lawyers, brought out a procession from the SCBA office, but law enforcers obstructed them at the main gate of SC. Rafiqul Islam Mian, Mahbub Uddin Khokan MP, Asifa Ashrafi Papia MP, Ragib Rouf Chowdhury, and Ruhul Quddus Kazol also spoke at the rally.