Pro-ruling party lawyers split
A forum of pro-ruling party lawyers, Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad (SASP), has split up into two groups due to internal conflicts.
One of the groups is led by Abdul Baset Majumder, a former vice chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council, and Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
Incumbent SASP Convener M Amir-Ul Islam and Post and Telecommunications Minister Shahara Khatun head the other faction.
Each of the groups is claming to be possessing control of the platform and held separate programmes on Supreme Court Bar Association premises yesterday. They will soon announce two separate convening committees.
A Supreme Court lawyer, seeking anonymity, told The Daily Star that the lawyers had split up over an invisible power struggle.
Deputy Leader of the House, Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, who inaugurated a discussion programme by Baset Majumder-led faction, urged the lawyers to help the government complete the war crimes trial within its tenure.
"Holding the trial of the crimes against humanity was in our election manifesto. The progressive lawyers and politicians will have to remain united so that the anti-liberation forces cannot hamper the trial," she said.
The other faction held an organising meeting yesterday where Shahara Khatun expressed her disappointment for the splitting of the platform.
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