The Workers Party of Bangladesh and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal are planning to wage a joint movement along with other like-minded political parties for restoration of the constitution as it was adopted in 1972.
The WP and JSD, partners of the Awami League-led alliance, expressed dissatisfaction over the proposed amendment of the constitution of 1972 and called for restoration of the constitution without any changes in its four fundamental principles – democracy, socialism, secularism and nationalism.
Leaders of the two parties on Thursday held a meeting at the JSD central office. The meeting protested at the move by the parliamentary special committee on constitution amendment to change the charter keeping Islam as the state religion.
The leaders also censured the government for its failure to control prices of essentials and low and order and condemned human rights violations by the Rapid Action Battalion and stock market manipulation.
Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon, general secretary Anisur Rahman Mollik, politburo members Fazle Hossain Badsha, Quamrul Ahsan, JSD president Hasanul Haq Inu, general secretary Sharif Nurul Ambia, central leaders Shirin Akhter and Mohammad Khaled attended the meeting.
Anisur Rahman Mollik told New Age on Friday that the Workers Party would not accept amendments to the constitution if the charter was not restored as it was in 1972.
'We are also dissatisfied with the performance of the alliance which had pledged to implement the 23-point charter… The government is far from implementing the charter', he said.
JSD leader Shirin Akhter said, 'Islam as the state religion and secularism cannot stay together in the constitution.'
Source: New Age
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