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AL Constitution amendment bill okayed

BNP may move bill before next Thursday

Star Report
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) high command at a meeting on Wednesday night discussed the proposed Constitution amendment bill of the । party to be presented before the Parliament during the current session.
I A decision about the date of । placing the proposed bill and | its final shape will be taken at a meeting of the BNP Parliamentary Party on June 29 just before the resumption of the Parliament session after an eight-day recess.
Meanwhile, the Constitution amendment bill of the Awami league was given the President's clearance on Wednesday. and Law Minister Mirza Golam Hafiz forwarded it to the Parliament Secretariat.
Clearance for the BNP bill is expected by today (Thursday), a reliable source told The Dally Star.
The initial estimate that Taka 22 crore will be required to hold a referendum If the Constitution amendment bill is passed has been lowered. On an inquiry made from, the President's Secretariat the Election Commission and the Ministry of Home Affairs have given a fresh estimate which says the expenses will be a bit less.
With the Acting President's clearance, the Awami League bill now stands a fair chance of being placed before the House on July 4. the next private members’ day.
BNP will try to Introduce its own bill before that. Sources say BNP leaders had planned before the Eld that their bill would be placed before the House within the month of June.
Sources said that the BNP leaders entrusted with the responsibility of drafting the
Party's proposed Constitution amendment bill continued to give final touches to the draft before it was submitted to the Acting President for certification on June 20.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Khaleda Zia herself told the visiting Japanese parliamentary delegation on Tuesday that her party had decided to go for a parliamentary form of government.
Begum Zia told the delegation that she stood for unalloyed democracy, and that she had consistently asserted Parliament would decide about the form of government
BNP leaders are having informal exchange of Ideas with opposition leaders on the proposed Constitution amendment bill. So far opposition MPs except those belonging to the Jatiya Party have reacted positively. They, however, prefer to keep their mouths shut till the contents of the BNP bill are made public.
Sources say MPs belonging to the Awami League and. the 8-party alliance are likely to soften their attitude towards a provision in the bill for taking upto one-fifth of the ministers from non-MPs.
They will seek to put some restrictions on the rights of such ministers to participate in the proceedings of the House.
Sources have indicated that there will be little differences between the proposed BNP bill and the AL bill.
The bills stand for similar provisions from the preamble to Article 10 of the Constitution. In subsequent articles the BNP bill Just seeks to keep the Constitution updated white the AL bill stands for a return to the 1972 Constitution.