Dhaka, Oct 21– Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta has said the government will wait until the last day of its tenure for discussion with opposition BNP on the caretaker government system.
He said this while addressing a seminar titled 'Caretaker Government and the Reality', organised by Shuchinta Foundation, a platform of Bangladeshi youth, at Dhaka Reporters Unity auditorium on Friday.
Suranjit, also chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry, claimed that though BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia wanted to join the House to discuss the caretaker government issue, party's standing committee member Moudud Ahmed suggested holding road march "to protect the constitution by not joining the House".
The senior Awami League leader said: "It's impossible to return to democratic process by violating the constitution."
About Khaleda's announcement of waging 'war' against the government, during its road march programme, to force it to quit, Suranjit said: "We've been defeating those, with whom she has declare the war, since 1952."
He criticised Khaleda for her recent remarks about the standard of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the 1971 liberation war.
The BNP chief in various rallies of the party, during the road march to Sylhet and Chapainawabganj, termed the war crimes trial a farcical one and demanded immediate halt to it.
She also demanded release of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, its secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed, executive council member Delwar Hossain Sayedee, assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Quader Molla and senior BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, who are facing the charges.
Referring to Khaleda's remarks, Suranjit said: "She should give testimony to the court that they are not war criminals. People are aware of your whereabouts and the roles of those during the war."
Constitutional law expert Dr M Zahir, former army chief M Harun-or-Rashid, senior journalist Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury and Shuchinta Foundation executive director Mohammad A Arafat also spoke at the programme.
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