Treasury and opposition lawmakers today said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman presented newly independent Bangladesh’s constitution within seven months of the national assembly’s first session as Pakistan even couldn’t do it within more than two decades.
“After the independence, the then National Assembly under Bangabandhu’s leadership adopted constitution within 208 days which Pakistan could not do by 25 years”, they said.
The lawmakers were speaking at the 22th special session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) marking its golden jubilee at the Sangsad Bhaban here with Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Participating in the discussion, ruling party lawmaker Moslem Uddin of Mymensingh-6 said, “The first session of the national assembly started on April 10, 1972 and the constitution was endorsed on November 4, 1972 under Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s leadership”.
Uddin, also a former member of the then National Assembly, said even, India took 3 years and United States of America (USA) took five years and nine months to ratify their respective constitutions.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said parliamentary democracy and development is closely related, adding the country is now globally praised due to the restoration of parliamentary democracy under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
BNP is hatching conspiracy to destabilize the parliament, he said.dhngkfdvk