Staff Reporter :
Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, a pro-BNP lawyers’ platform, plans tougher agitations in the courtyards around the country demanding removal and arrest of former Chief Justice and incumbent Chairman of Law Commission ABM Khairul Haque in view of his recent remarks about the Supreme Court verdict that scrapped 16th amendment to the Constitution.
The Ainjibi Forum may give call for boycott of courts if Khairul Haque is not removed. The forum has already announced three days demonstrations from today.
“We are preparing for greater and unabated movement to meet our demands. The tenure of agitation depends on the attitude and behaviour of the government,” said, Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukdar, the Joint-Secretary General of the forum, to The New Nation on Saturday.
The lawyers are determined to remove Khairul Haque from the Law Commission, he added.
Supreme Court Bar Association Secretary Mahbub Uddin Khokon, in a news briefing at BNP central office On Friday announced the demonstrations for Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday.
We also protest against the remarks made by ministers ‘tarnishing’ the image of the Supreme Court.
The former chief justice on Wednesday called the Appellate Division judges ‘immature’ for calling democracy in the Parliament dysfunctional and the verdict that scrapped the 16th amendment to the constitution as ‘preconceived’.
After the Appellate Division’s verdict, justice Khairul said, “It appears to me that ‘we are no longer in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, rather we are in the Judges’ Republic of Bangladesh.”
