Dhaka – Bangladesh Bar Council, a statutory body regulating the lawyers, on Monday claimed that democracy will get buried if the
national election is held on January 5.
Council vice-chairman Khandkar Mahbub Hossain, flanked by its member and SCBA president AJ Mohammad Ali, came up with the view at a press
conference at its office.
Khandkar Mahbub, also an adviser to the BNP chairperson, said the Bar Council does not support any political party, but it asks both the
parties to restore democracy through a consensus.
He said even the civil society members and others have been pressing for scrapping the Jan 5 polls.
Mahbub urged the Prime Minister to summon parliament to make an arrangement for a neutral polls-time administration based on a
consensus, or else, he said, democracy will get buried with the Jan 5 election.
He further said democracy is now on flame and it is being buried alive in the name of the constitution to cling to power.
Backing the programme announced by the BNP chairperson, he said Begum Zia had called upon people from all walks of life to join the ‘march
for democracy’, but the government in order to resist it made the whole country paralysed, showing disregard to democratic norms. – UNB
