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BNP will explore legal avenues to try Golam Azam: Talukder

By Staff Correspondent
The government will soon start examining different legal avenues to try Golam Azam under the provisions of the law of the land, said the LORD Minister and BNP Secretary General Abdus Salam Talukder.
In a press briefing held at the Information Minister's Sangsad Bhavan chamber after the summer session of Parliament was prorogued last night, BNP Secretary General said that they could not adopt any measure contradictory to the country's Constitution.
Referring to the arrest of Golam Azam by the government on charge of violation of Constitution the BNP Secretary General said that there was no scope for any quarter to think that the government would spare anybody committing offence against the country.
The Information Minister Barrister Nazmul Huda Chowdhury who was also present on the occasion said, the resolution passed in Parliament today also clearly provides the Eovernment a guideline to andlc the Golam Azam issue through constitutional means only.
Replying to a question the Information Minister said that the government would also examine whether Golam Azam could be tried as a war criminal under International Crimes Act , 1973.
He, however, observed that ft would be difficult to try him under this act specially after '20 years of inordinate delay'. 'Such delay usually affects the merit of the case,' the minister added.
The Works Minister Rafiqul Islam Mtah who joint the BNP leaders talking to the newsmen later said, the Delhi agreement signed between the then governments of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan could also virtually act as an obstacle to trying Golam Azam as a war criminal. 'Furthermore' he said, 'one has to prove Golam Azam as one of the auxiliary force of the Pakistani occupation army to try him under the International Crimes Act, 1973'. 'All these things required to be carefully examined from the legal points of view before the government formulates charges against Golam Azam.' Rafique observed.
Referring to the Opposition party's boycotting the JS session on Golam Azam Issue the BNP Secretary General said that difference of opinions between the Treasury bench and Opposition members on different Issues was natural. But we have left no stone unturned during the last three days to reach a consensus on the Golam Azam issue by means of several rounds of official and non-officlal talks with them,' the BNP Secretary General said.
The Opposition should not expect us to uphold and Implement their party programmes he said adding BNP will never compromise over its nationalist politics even at the cost of losing state power. The Secretary General, however, said that for the sake of giving hard earned democracy an Institutional shape his party was ready to continue discussion with the Opposition in both Inside and outside the House.