Opposition chooses path of anarchy: AG
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said the BNP-led opposition has chosen the path of anarchy and indiscipline in its bid to pave the way for others to come to power through unconstitutional means.
“The programmes which will create obstruction to democracy will be resisted,” he said while speaking at a gathering of law practitioners at the South Hall of Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association in the capital.
Sammilito Ainjibi Samannoya Parishad organised the gathering in protest against the opposition's "conspiracy and anarchy" in the country with vice-president of Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association KM Saifuddin Ahmed was in the chair.
Advocate Md Azhar Ullah Bhuiyan, a member of the Sammilito Ainjibi Samannoya Parishad, conducted the rally.
Speaking at the rally, Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association general secretary Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehdi said being envious of the successes of the government, the opposition has been enforcing repeated hartals without any issue.
Senior lawyer and Awami League presidium member Advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun termed the opposition's hartal illogical and said, “We have not called hartal even after killing of our leader Ivy Rahman in grenade attack.”
He said in reality, the opposition's intention for calling hartal was not to rescue Ilias Ali, rather it was aimed at obstructing the Zia Orphanage Trust Corruption Case against Khaleda Zia, money laundering cases against two of her sons and the trial of the war criminals for their heinous crimes committed against humanity in 1971.
Vice-president of Bangladesh Bar Council Advocate Abdul Baset Mazumder said, “Words like missing, fleeing and wilful self-disappearance are the creation of BNP. Which one Ilias Ali has chosen nobody knows. We don't know even where BNP leaders Haris Chowdhury, Tarek and Coco have gone for hideouts.”
On the other hand, Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum brought out a small procession and held a rally on the premises of the Supreme Court in favour of the hartal.
Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association president Zoinul Abedin, Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum President Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia, secretary general Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Advocate Netai Roy Chowdhury also spoke at the rally.
There were normal judicial functions in all the sections of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division. Unlike the other working days, the presence of lawyers and clients was thin in the Supreme Court today due to hartal. However, the presence of officers and employees in all the sections of the Supreme Court was normal.
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