Battle for the house!
Although the steam is getting less powerful, the BNP activists are still holding the street to retain the house. A newly empowered heavy weight politician of the BNP, who happens to be a lawyer, is really out to make all kinds of arguments to retain the house of his leader. Bangladesh is a country of extraordinary judicial culture--for some one's mistake or favour the country will have to pay for it. Even constitutional protection is given to protect an illegal and immoral act of individual and of the government. The learned lawyers of the BNP might find a way out to save the house so that they are not evicted from the place of birth and bastion of power. This is well said by the SG of the BNP. according to him, ' Minus cantonment means minus politics or minus one " what an interesting admission of the political ideology of the party. We feel baffled learning that the house is donated to the entire family of president Zia, which means they will inherit the right from generation to generation and the basic political ideology will carry with them. I thank the political mentor for taking such a farsighted action for the newly born political party in 1975. This is called political statesmanship. The learned lawyers might be saving the heritage whether it is illegal or immoral by any standard. We only hope that the spirit of unadulterated law will be upheld in the court of law and justice will be delivered to undo an illegal and immoral act of the past and the present. The people will thank the Zia family if they voluntarily vacate the house since they have more than enough resources to build such a memorial house outside the cantonment. Please take a moral view and not lawyers' advice.
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