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Download PDF Acting president of Awami League (AL) Zillur Rahman yesterday termed the government press note barring AL President Sheikh Hasina’s return “unacceptable, baseless and disappointing” and added that Hasina has the constitutional and fundamental right to return to Bangladesh as its citizen.
Zillur in a press statement released yesterday said it is unacceptable that the government said it was compelled to declare a state of emergency due to the continuous agitation and movement led by the AL, as it undermined “public order and threatened people’s security”.
“The reasons why the state of emergency was declared were clearly outlined by the president’s address to the nation in January,” Zillur said.
He said Hasina led the democratic forces in the country to protect the people’s right to vote and save the country from a farcical election that was to be held with a faulty voter list.
Zillur also said it is “extremely disappointing” that Hasina is being prevented from returning home, adding, “All citizens of this country have a right to live here. This is her birthright, constitutional and fundamental right.”
He said cases were filed against Hasina while she was overseas and she was made the main accused in the charge sheet when she was not even named in the original case.
“The people expect this government to be proactive in establishing the rule of law,” Zillur said, adding, “These sorts of political harassment cases may subsume all the current government’s good initiatives.”
The acting chief said, “Sheikh Hasina and Bangladesh Awami League are resolute in establishing the rule of law in Bangladesh. That is why Hasina has said that she will prove her innocence through legal avenues.”
“We (AL) hope that the government will let Sheikh Hasina return to the country and let the law take its own course,” stated Zillur.
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:35 pm
IF you ask Good people, They will say we want to live in peace and earn our livings maintaining
our peaceful life style.
AL had brought chaos where Poor people could not earn their livings.Made the contry bad to worse in every sense. You destroyed Buses, and
burnt down Industries. Whose property were these? yours ?
If there were no hooligans, kilings, destructions by AL there was no necesseity of Emergency Govt. You AL had asked for it.
Thank ALLAH now people clearly know how unruly
leaders ruled Bangladesh under the guise of so called democracy.
Thank you