STATEMENT:Interfering the Judiciary and Political Activities by the Army Backed Present Caretaker Government is against Prime Constitutional

By- Adv. Shahanur Islam Saikot Programme Manager-Legal & Human Rights 

 The object of the caretaker government as per Bangladesh constitution Article 58(C) is perform routine play to day works to assist the election commission to hold the parliamentary election and hand over power to the elected representatives within 90 days as it was strictly mentioned in 1996 and 2001 by the then caretaker government. But this time the present caretaker gov’t keeping away their constitutional binding of holding election has taken up many unusual agenda in name of irradiation of corruption over night. Mr. Mainul Hossain, advisor of Law Justice, parliamentary and information affairs said in a news conference on 09 July 2007 that no bail by the court will be allowed to the persons charged with corruption. Allowing or not allowing bail to any person is sole lawful authority of concerned court. The decision taken by the advisor of Law Justice, parliamentary and information affairs is definitely an unlawful step against independent of judiciary which creates an unholy impact upon justice entailing serve violation of human rights regards obtaining bail from the court. The same advisor has said that to boycott Sheikh Hasina, President of Bangladesh Awami league and Begum Khaleda Zia, Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party both are former prime minister of Bangladesh for failure of their leadership. The caretaker government is a neutral body as per Bangladesh Constitution. The advisor of caretaker by their comment about the cheif of two popular main parties has shown his participation is the attempt of reform the those two political parties internal organizational structure which is not expected to uphold the democracy in contravention of protection of human rights. General Moeen. U Ahmed Chief of Bangladesh Army is a gov’t servant of the people republic of Bangladesh. So long the remains in government service he is to follow service conduct rule which has restricted a gov’t servant from involving in any political subject in any public forum. But since 11 January 2007 the day of army backed caretaker government. The chief of the army has bee3n delivering speeches on political subject in several public forums all over the country. On 10.07.07 in a seminar organized by the Bangladesh Institute of speech and security studies general Moeen has proposed to amend the constitution Bangladesh (Please see “The Daily Star on 10 July 2007”) which is a highly sensitive political matter. He has also criticized the national and international opinion about withdrawn of political restriction as well as state of emergency and holding early election. The comments of Gen. Moeen on political subject remind the nation the role of Lft. Gen. H. M. Ershad the army chief in 1982 before forcibly taking power from the then elected President Justice Satter on 24 March 1982 and prolongation of Martial Law. The people of Bangladesh are strongly suspicious as to whether the same road map of 1982 is being followed to destabilize the democratic political institution and introduce army controlled demo cry of Gen. Pervez Mosharaf in Pakistan. At such situation the Islamic militant will take chance of political vacuum to organize the half literate Madrasha student s and orthodox Muslim towards Taleban style gov’t in Bangladesh. The sign and symptom is already visible in Pakistan from local mosque incidents within its Capital city in Islamabad.