Fundamentalism has taken hold in Bangladesh after the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina’s government. Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, is making a series of decisions that go against the basic spirit of Bangladesh’s founding. Meanwhile, Bangladesh is now likely to declare itself an Islamic state. Bangladesh’s top legal official has proposed removing the words secular and socialist from the country’s constitution.
Call for these elements to be removed from the constitution
Bangladesh Attorney General Mohammad Aszamman made several arguments during the court petition hearing. The attorney general sought to delete two of the four principles of Bangladesh’s constitution, namely secularism and socialism. At the same time, demands were also made to abolish the status of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the Father of the Nation. In addition to this, provision was also made for changes in the death penalty through extra-constitutional means to change the government.
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