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Download PDF The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party combine yesterday asked the caretaker government (CG) to suspend those senior civil servants who secretly met former energy adviser Mahmudur Rahman at his business house at Uttara in the capital on Friday night.
They demanded that the CG take necessary action against those ‘beneficiary’ bureaucrats as per 3(a) clause of the Government Employees Special Act 1979 to bring back discipline in the administration.
“The BNP-Jamaat alliance using bureaucrats partisan to them has been conspiring to make the advisers to the caretaker government cornered and use the interim administration in its favour,” 14-party coordinator Abdul Jalil told a press briefing at AL’s Dhanmondi office in the capital.
“Why did they flee away like thieves if they had no ill motives? Suspend them immediately and take legal action against them,” Jalil asked the CG.
Prior to the briefing, the 14-party held an emergency meeting with AL President Sheikh Hasina in the chair to discuss the current political situation in the country.
Jalil, also AL general secretary, demanded that the CG bring under vigilance by the intelligence agencies the bureaucrats involved in ‘conspiracy’ against the traditional laws, electoral process and especially against the advisers to the CG.
Strongly condemning the ex-energy adviser Mahmudur Rahman’s meeting with former and in-service senior civil servants, the AL leader said it is now crystal clear that the BNP-Jamaat coalition wants to return to power through ‘election engineering’ by using the administration.
He said Mahmudur Rahman’s meeting with the civil servants and the ‘mysterious behavior’ of President/Chief Adviser Iajuddin Ahmed had made uncertain creating a congenial atmosphere for holding free and fair elections as well as the future of the democratic process in the country.
Jalil said the bureaucrats grossly breached the service rules by secretly meeting a political person like Mahmudur Rahman.
About Rahman’s comment that they were his colleagues and they came to his business office only on a social visit, Jalil said, “If it was a social visit, why he [Mahamudur] helped them to flee. Why did he obstruct taking their snaps by the press photographers?”
He asked Mahmudur Rahman to publish the list of his guests.
“The caretaker government must remove cabinet, home, establishment, information, law and environment secretaries from their present positions as they are controversial and still serving the purpose of the previous BNP-Jamaat government,” he said.
Terming Election Commissioner SM Zakaria the ‘master of election engineering’, Jalil demanded his removal.
He also urged the chief adviser not to appoint ‘controversial’ persons as election commissioners.
Chief Adviser Iajuddin has not only failed to prove his neutrality, he is conspiring to implement the BNP-Jamaat’s plan to rig the next election, Jalil said.
He renewed his call to Iajuddin for immediately quitting the office of the CA to make way for a free and fair election.
Besides the 14-partry combine’s sit-in demonstration programmes outside the Bangabhaban and the EC Secretariat, they would also hold demonstrations in every upazila tomorrow and stage sit-in in front of the deputy commissioners’ offices and the district election offices on Nov 28, Jalil said.
Senior 14-party leaders were present at the briefing.
At another press conference, AL Joint General Secretary Obaidul Quader termed the bureaucrats’ attending a secret meeting with Mahmudur Rahman a ‘violation’ of government service rules and demanded their dismissal.
The 14-party combine has expressed deep shock at the death of Pir of Charmonai Maulana Syed Mohammad Fazlul Karim and prayed for the salvation of the departed soul.
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