President urged not to sign DCC split bill
Columnist Syed Abul Maksud, standing at centre, at a candlelit vigil he organised at Central Shaheed Minar in the city at midnight marking the country's 40th anniversary of independence and protesting the government's move to split Dhaka City Corporation. Photo: Palash Khan
Columnist Syed Abul Maksud yesterday appealed to the president to refrain from signing the bill to split Dhaka City Corporation into two. “You (the president) have the jurisdiction to send the bill back to parliament without putting your signature to it,” he said in a candle lighting programme at Central Shaheed Minar at 12:00am. Maksud organised the programme marking the country's 40th anniversary of independence and protesting the government's move to split Dhaka City Corporation. Some 400 candles were lit and a fanush (miniature hot air balloon) was released on the occasion, attended by civil society members and different organisations and a few councillors. “Dhaka cannot be divided in the same way that our motherland cannot be partitioned. Our Dhaka is not divided. It is one and indivisible and self-sufficient. “The age of Dhaka is more than 700 to 800 years and we would pray that our Dhaka would remain undivided for 4,000 years and I would say for four lakh years with joy and prosperity,” Maksud added. Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Dr Pias Karim and Ruhin Hossain Prince also spoke at the programme.
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