Khelafat Majlis central leaders, while meeting the National Consensus Commission on Saturday, demanded implementation of all the reforms in the constitution, electoral system, judiciary, public administration, police and Anti-Corruption Commission before the next general election.
At the LD Hall of the national parliament building in Dhaka city, they sat with the commission members in the second dialogue for political parties鈥� consensus on the recommendations by the reform commissions in the聽 six areas and institutions.
The vice president of the consensus commission, Professor Ali Riaz, chaired the dialogue in which Khelafat Majlish secretary general Ahmad Abdul Kader led an eight-member team.
After the meeting, Kader told journalists that necessary reforms in the six areas would be well possible in the next 10 months if the political parties were sincere.
He, however, said that his party did not feel the necessity of a constituent assembly to adopt reforms.
He said that his party disagreed with the constitution reform commission-proposed 鈥榩luralism鈥� and suggested that the consensus commission should uphold 鈥榟aving faith in Allah鈥� as the fundamental principle of the constitution.
Khelafat Majlis suggested that the constitution must prohibit laws that violate Islamic laws.
鈥榃e recommend direct elections for the 400 seats of lower house, instead of keeping 100 seats reserved for women, as proposed by two reform commissions,鈥� Kader said.
Of the 166-point key recommendations sent to the political parties, Khelafat Majlis agreed with 140 points, partially disagreed with 10 points and disagreed with 15 points.
Khelafat Majlis delegation included naib-e-ameer Ahmad Ali Qasemi, joint secretary general Mostafizur Rahman Faisal, Md Abdul Jalil and ABM Sirajul Mamun
In a separate meeting, a 13-member delegation from the Bangladesh Labour Party, led by its chairman Mostafizur Rahman Iran, participated in a dialogue with the consensus commission.
The party vice chairman and its Dhaka Metropolitan unit president SM Yusuf Ali, lawyer Johra Khatun Jui, Sylhet Metropolitan unit president Mahbubur Rahman Khaled, Chittagong Metropolitan unit president Md Alauddin Ali and Hinduratna Ramkrishna Saha, among others, were present.
Apart from Professor Riaz, consensus commission members Safar Raj Hossain, Justice Emdadul Haque, Iftekharuzzaman and Badiul Alam Majumdar along with the chief adviser鈥檚 special assistant Monir Haidar were present during the two dialogues.
Formed on February 12, the consensus commission is assigned to draft a consensus-based 鈥楴ational Charter鈥� by July this year.
On March 5, the commission sent a 166-point questionnaire to 38 political parties, requesting their feedback by March 13.
Till Saturday, the commission received feedback from 16 political parties, according to a press release.
Today, the commission is scheduled to hold talks with the Rashtra Sangskar Andolan.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Communist Party of Bangladesh and newly floated National Citizen Party are expected to submit their opinions on reform to the commission today.
