The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday said that the party would form a ‘constitutional commission’ to reform the constitution of the country to make it ‘people’s constitution’ if they got the people’s mandate.
‘The constitution in which we all agreed to hold elections under a caretaker government for a normal, peaceful transfer of power must be retrieved as the provision has already been dissolved. That constitution is definitely for our people. We must make some changes to this constitution to do what we want,’ BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said while attending the anniversary programme of the Daily Naya Diganta in Dhaka.
The BNP leader said that the BNP made it clear that it would create a constitutional commission if it won the people’s mandate.
‘We will create a constitutional commission, we will scrap all the undemocratic, anti-people things that have been added, and we will have a truly up-to-date constitution based on what the people need, around what was done in 1972,’ he said.
He said that the current constitution has failed to fulfil the aspirations of the people of the country. 'The explanation is very clear, what the people of this country want is the constitution, and that is the constitution we want,' he said.
Fakhrul appealed to the people to cooperate with the BNP to make Bangladesh a very progressive country in the true sense.
‘If we can create the conditions of free thinking in Bangladesh, then we can create a state of equality and justice in Bangladesh in the true sense,’ he said.
At the programme, among others, Bangladesh Kalyan Party chairman Syed Muhammad Ibrahim, retired Justice Iqtedar Ahmed, former Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists president Ruhul Amin Gazi and its current president M Abdullah were present.
