No more caretaker government: Anisul

Law Minister Anisul Huq has made it clear that there won’t be any caretaker government in the country before the next general elections as the apex court has already declared it illegal.

The government, he said, will abide by this decision because it believes in the rule of law, reports UNB.

The minister was speaking to journalists after attending an event titled ‘National Stakeholder Consultation on Institutional of Paralegal Approach’ at a city hotel on Saturday.

“The Election Commission has been established following laws of the land to conduct elections. The current commission is capable of holding a free and fair election. So there won’t be any need of anything else,” said Anisul.

Anisul reiterated that elections are held under partisan governments all over the world. Same will happen in Bangladesh too.

The minister hoped that all the political parties will join the elections that will be held under the current government.

Replying to a question, Anisul said that if any leader or activist from the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is in jail for political reasons, he/she will be freed. But this won’t be the case for those who are convicted in cases.

“In the second scenario, the detainees will need the court’s help to come out of jail,” Anisul said.

The event was presided over by Md Golam Sarwar, Secretary of Law and Justice Division. Ambassador of European Union to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley, High Commissioner of the UK to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson and Ambassador of Germany to Bangladesh Achim Troster, among others, spoke in the event.