Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus’ observation about the next elections are unclear and disappointing, BNP Secretary Total Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir stated this day (19 December).
Talking at a press briefing held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan Place of job, he stated, “I agree with there is now no longer a grunt if the Election Rate takes preparations for conducting elections as they’ve already been shaped. This is able to maybe perhaps be completed in a short time.
“We had thought the CA would lay out a particular roadmap with staunch dates, which he did no longer. This has dissatisfied us and the nation to a diploma,” Fakhrul stated.
Terming the statements of the CA and his Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam as contradictory, Fakhrul stated, “The CA has stated the next elections will doubtless be held in unhurried 2025 or early 2026. On the choice hand, his press secretary has stated the elections will doubtless be held within June 2026. Right here is contradictory. We won’t realize exactly which one is magnificent.”
Replying to a matter, Fakhrul added he did no longer assume the timeframe that the CA had given used to be logical.
“We now bask in talked about the CA’s observation intimately at our Standing Committee assembly. The committee believes that even though the CA has talked a pair of that you would possibly perhaps well maybe maybe recall to mind timeframe for the elections, he has now no longer given any particular roadmap,” Fakhrul added.
“The Standing Committee thinks there is now no longer a bask in to extend…Elections will doubtless be held immediate thru finishing up the linked reforms. Other folks seek knowledge from distinct messages from the CA regarding this. The committee thinks the authorities would possibly perhaps maybe maybe also aloof resolve a particular date for the elections thru discussions with political parties and other partners,” Fakhrul additionally stated.
BNP’s Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed used to be mutter at the press briefing.
On 16 December, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus stated the next general election will doubtless be held between the tip of 2025 and the principle half of of 2026 after finishing up needed insist reforms and a payment will doubtless be shaped soon to make a national consensus, enticing with political parties.
Pointing out that the manager adviser has outlined a clear roadmap for election, tomorrow Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam stated the Election Rate will whisper the actual date for polls.
“A in point of fact distinct roadmap has been given regarding the elections. What’s going to be a clearer roadmap than this? Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus talked about that the elections would possibly perhaps maybe maybe also rob keep between December 2025 or 30 June 2026. The particular date will doubtless be determined and presented by the Election Rate,” he stated.
BNP welcomes HC verdict scrapping half of 15th Modification
Fakhrul stated they appreciated the Excessive Court docket verdict on the 15th Modification to the Structure because the court docket acknowledged that the next parliament following an election is the staunch acceptable dialogue board for amending the Structure.
The Court docket recognised that the next elected parliament will doubtless be the staunch acceptable dialogue board for amending the Structure, he added.
When requested whether their catch together had completed what it wanted from the court docket’s verdict on the 15th Modification, the BNP secretary general stated they had submitted completely different proposals as intervenors at some stage in the hearing, but he noteworthy that the court docket did no longer entirely help in mind their proposals.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Excessive Court docket scrapped half of the 15th Modification to the Structure that had abolished the non-partisan caretaker authorities device and additionally issued completely different observations.
Explaining the Excessive Court docket verdict, BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed stated the apex court docket acknowledged that Parliament holds the jurisdiction to amend the Structure.
He stated your whole issues that undoubtedly undermined the fundamental structure of the Structure, the foundations of democracy, and changed the persona of the Structure had been declared unconstitutional and unlawful by the court docket.
Salahuddin stated the court docket additionally paved the manner for reinstating the caretaker authorities device, recognising it as a fundamental side of the Structure.
He stated the decision additionally reinstated Article 96, which pertains to the Supreme Judicial Council, moreover the provision on referendums.
Salahuddin stated the court docket annulled some clauses that the Awami League had presented as political tools.
The BNP chief stated the fascist Awami authorities had declared nearly a 3rd of the structure unamendable, which used to be nullified by the decision.
“The Structure is now no longer this kind of file that can’t be changed… the court docket declared those provisions invalid and abolished them. The Supreme Court docket has the authority to define all felony guidelines passed by Parliament in the event that they agree with unconstitutional parts. The court docket has left the final issues to Parliament, maybe because it can maybe maybe even bask in felt that there are political choices to be made here,” he stated.
The BNP chief stated the next politically elected parliament will resolve on all amendments.
Later, Mirza Fakhrul stated all elections, together with the local body ones, held beneath the fascist Sheikh Hasina authorities had been unlawful.
He stated their catch together earlier again and again known as upon the interim authorities to dissolve all local authorities bodies. “All had been dissolved with the exception of for the Union Parishad. We demanded that it can maybe maybe also aloof additionally be cancelled in an instant.”
In accordance to a matter about whether the BNP wants to place passe Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque on trial for his involvement in the process of illegally amending the Structure, the BNP Secretary Total stated, “When the choice comes, he’ll undoubtedly be delivered to justice.”
