The government has started to change its' stand after the Appellate Division's verdict on 16th Amendment of the constitution. Now the policymakers are thinking about the alternatives on this issue. Among the alternatives, the article 97 of the constitution and the violation of the Chief Justice’s oath has been investigating with importance. The policymaker’s of Awami League and the government have provided such information. However, they would like to be sure of what might be the adverse effect of the alternate path.
Several sources of the policy-makers level said, as part of this, on Wednesday (August 16th) the President Mr. Abdul Hamid had a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Law Minister Advocate Anisul Haque, Road Transport and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader and Attorney General Mahbubey Alam. According to the source, a process that can be followed can be followed in resolving the Sixth Amendment verdict and observation, in detail, in the meeting. According to the sources, which procedure can be followed to resolve the situation on the Sixth Amendment verdict and this matter was discussed in the meeting in detail.
It is learned that in addition to the verdicts of the Sixteenth Amendment, the distinction between the judiciary and the executive division of the subordinate judiciary regarding the employed rules and the removal of magistrates' powers from executive departments has made the government unbelief on the Chief Justice. Among them, the government and the judiciary are in a mess about the Sixteenth Amendment verdict. Due to these reasons, the alternative thinking about the Chief Justice is becoming more important to policymakers, sources said. However, the implementation of alternative ideas will be urgent but the government will take more time in this regard. The government will work more in ground level for this.
The sources said that the judiciary's distance with the Government has not only been decided on the Sixteenth Amendment verdict, but also the reason behind the decreasing ability of judicial judges of the lower court judges and the suspension of magistrates' power of the Executive Division.
It is informed that in the meeting on Wednesday, the President's attention has been drawn to whether the judge has violated his oath and the Chief Justice on the verdict of the Sixteenth Amendment, or the recent statements that have been stated in the verdict.
Awami League lawyers have also been examining whether the Chief Justice has violated the oath. In the meeting that was discussed in detail, whether the President can solve the situation on sixteenth Amendment verdict.
According to sources, there is a great deal of discussion in paragraph 97 of the Constitution at the higher level of the government. What will be the reaction is needed to follow as procedures. Following these procedures, the government is in the process of trying to understand whether the next situation becomes more restrictive.
According to the ruling party sources, Government, on Tuesday (August 15), expected to negotiate the issue, but regarding the hopelessness of the negotiation, a high-level meeting was held. A key policymaker of the government said, ‘The compromise on the issue has become very much blocked. As a result, following the steps were taken by the government for resolving the matter, there is a lot of analyzing the situation that will stand.” He assured that the possibility of compromise is very less.
The two policy-makers of the government said the government, ‘The Chief Justice met with Obaidul Quader, trying to find out a way or how to come to the negotiation. But it seems to have been wasted. Therefore, alternate methods have been reviewing between the team and the government.’ The two leaders said, “Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said at a meeting of the last party forum, ‘If the situation gets complicated, we need to think about Article 97 of the Constitution.’ It seems that the time has reached that level.”
