staff correspondent:
\nBangladesh Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has condemned the statement made by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir regarding the country’s judiciary, terming it as \u201carrogant\u201d and \u201cunconstitutional\u201d.In his statement, Quader accused BNP leaders of making \u2018deliberate negative comments\u2019 about the \u2018independent judiciary\u2019.He said, \u201cBNP’s top leadership had been proven guilty in various criminal cases through lengthy legal proceedings and evidence, and they were rightfully punished as per the judgment of the learned court. The current government had no involvement in these cases, which were filed during One-Eleven’s caretaker government and handled through a lengthy judicial process in accordance with the law.\u201dResponding to Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s reference to a case filed against Sheikh Hasina during the 1\/11 government, Quader said that the case had been dismissed by the High Court after being thoroughly examined through a long legal process and evidence.Quader further accused BNP of having no faith in the country’s constitution, judiciary, elections, public opinion, or democratic norms since its inception.\u201cThe party continuously attempts to undermine democratic institutions and repeatedly creates obstacles in the establishment of an independent judiciary,\u201d he said.In a historical context, Quader pointed out BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and said, \u201cHe introduced a subculture of lawlessness in Bangladesh and used the judiciary for political gains. BNP had manipulated the judiciary and controlled it from their headquarters, Hawa Bhavan. BNP forcibly retired judges to facilitate the appointment of party-favoured judges and where a High Court judge, without a law degree, was made to resign after being vindicated.\u201dAccording to Quader, during the BNP’s tenure, there were instances of a High Court judge holding court sessions at his house at night.He also mentioned the dissolution of a bench formed on the orders of the then BNP party attorney general during High Court proceedings against their party president’s decision to illegally assume the post of chief adviser to the caretaker government. Quader reiterated that BNP’s repeated attempts to \u2018tarnish the country’s judiciary and constitution\u2019 were aimed at \u2018saving their top leaders from facing the consequences of their crimes\u2019.\u201cEveryone, regardless of their political identity, is equal under the law. Awami League government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, consolidated the independence of the judiciary and established an independent judicial system in the country, thereby restoring the rule of law and putting an end to the culture of lawlessness,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
staff correspondent: Bangladesh Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has condemned the statement made by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir regarding the country’s judiciary, terming it as \u201carrogant\u201d and \u201cunconstitutional\u201d.In his statement, Quader accused BNP leaders of making \u2018deliberate negative comments\u2019 about the \u2018independent judiciary\u2019.He said, \u201cBNP’s top leadership had been proven guilty in various criminal cases through lengthy legal proceedings and evidence, and they were rightfully punished as per the judgment of the learned court. The current government had no involvement in these cases, which were filed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}