Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Constitution has been amended to ensure ‘full return’ to democratic system and the general election will mark the beginning of the practice.
She told British Labour Party MPs Rushanara Ali and Shabana Mahmood about the plans on Thursday amid the opposition BNP’s demand to hold the parliamentary polls under a non-party caretaker government.
The Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary Nazrul Islam briefed the media about the meeting held at her official residence, Ganabhaban.
The Constitution now stipulates holding polls under the current Awami League-led government. But the BNP claims the crucial balloting would not be free and fair if it is overseen by a partisan government.
The non-party government provision was annulled in June 2011 through the 15th constitutional amendment.
Hasina, also the Awami League President, has been suggesting the opposition sees the election process of democracies including Britain.
She told the British MPs, “We follow the Westminster-type democracy. We are going back to fully democratic practice. ……We have to start it somewhere.”
Source: Bd news24
