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Download PDF Moudud Ahmed, law minister of the immediate past four-party alliance government, omitted from the constitution the Proclamation of Independence and several chapters that dealt with provisions for declaring emergency, taking oaths of office, and amendments to the constitution.
Rather, the minister included a new preface to the constitution that allegedly distorted the real history of the proclamation of independence.
The latest version of the constitution with a new preface written by former law minister Moudud Ahmed was published on the last working day of the eighth parliament by the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
In the new preface, Moudud Ahmed wrote, “The elected political leadership failed to give directions to the people at that critical moment (25 March, 1971). In that situation, in response to the indispensable demand of the time, the then Major Ziaur Rahman of the army, made the historic declaration of independence from Kalurgaht radio station in Chittagong as a leader of the war of resistance.”
Where as, the Proclamation of Independence describes that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh on March 26 and asked the people to save the sovereignty and dignity of the country.
However, the Proclamation of Independence that had been included in the constitution was omitted while printing the new version.
The Proclamation of Independence is a part of the constitution of Bangladesh and nobody can change it or omit any section of it without amending the constitution, Abdul Matin Khasru told The Daily Star yesterday.
In a statement, Abdul Matin Khasru, a former law minister who had served the Awami League government, demanded that the president also chief of the caretaker government stops distribution of the latest version of the constitution as the law minister of the immediate past government ‘distorted the history of the proclamation of independence in the newly written preface to the constitution’.
Abdul Matin Khasru demanded removal of the newly written introduction from the constitution, and publication and distribution of the constitution with the ‘real history of the proclamation of independence’.
In a news release, Khasru stated that before handing over the office Moudud Ahmed wrote the new introduction where he ‘distorted the history of the proclamation of independence’.
The release also said history will never forgive such a ‘crime’ by a responsible person.
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