HC cannot comment on all parliamentary affairs: Suranjit
Referring to a recent High Court (HC) verdict on the Speaker's ruling about an HC judge, senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta yesterday said the court could not comment on all affairs involving parliament.
“The court's comment on the Speaker's ruling was nothing but unwise, and it was not rational to create conflict among the main organs of the country,” he said.
Suranjit, also a minister without portfolio, was addressing a discussion organised by Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote at Jatiya Sishu Academy in the capital.
In a July 24 verdict, the HC said the Speaker's observations that an HC judge (Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik) had violated the constitution had no legal effect and were baseless in the eyes of the law.
Suranjit said if the Speaker's ruling did not exist, Jatiya Sangsad also did not exist. "And if the Sangsad does not exist, the constitution does not exist and so as the judiciary and you [the judge].”
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