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Jalil mentally imbalanced

Says Ashraf after ALCWC meet

Staff Correspondent
Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) yesterday blasted Abdul Jalil, a member of AL advisory council, for his recent derogatory statements about the party and the last parliamentary election, but it did not decide to take action against him.
"Organisational actions cannot be taken against a mentally imbalanced person,"
AL General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told journalists after a meeting of the highest decision making body of the party.
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At the meeting, chaired by Prime Minister and party chief Sheikh Hasina. most of the ALCWC members bitterly criticised Jalil for the statements which . they noted, embarrassed both the government and the AL
They asked the party to take stern action against him to stop recurrence of such incidents.
Contacted, a number of leaders who attended the meet -ing, however quoted Sheikh Hasina as saying action would be taken against Jalil at an appropriate time. They also said they think finally the former Al. general secretary will have to face action.
Hasina also told the meeting that she knows who have been making anti-government and anti-party statements keeping secret links with Jalil.
She reiterated that Jalil should have resigned as a law maker before raising any question about the polls in which he also was elected.
Meanwhile, in an interview with London-based Bangla TV recently. Jalil said the party's landslide victory in the ninth parliamentary election came through an "understanding". He received kudos from opposi -tion BNP for his remark.
Later on Ibesday last, Jalil said in London he still suffers from trauma due to torture by
the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) personnel while in detention during the caretaker government's tenure. And he blamed this state of mind for the remarks he made in the interview with Bangla IV
At the ALCWC meeting. Mohammad Nasim and other leaders told the party chief that if action is not taken against Jalil, people like him would dare to foliowhim.
But questions have now arisen whether Jalil, also chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on commerce ministry, could remain a lawmaker and a member of the Al. advisory council as the party general secretary termed him 'mentallyimbalanced'.
Asked about this, jurist Shahdeen Malik however said Ashrafs statement does not have any legal standing. "One will be disqualified to remain a lawmaker only if a competent court declares him or her as unsound mind," he added.
Malik also said i f the AL really thinks that Jalil is mentally imbalanced, then it should have relieved him of party post temporarily or permanently. "But the party did not do so. It seems to me that the party wants to suppress the Jalil issue by label -ling him as a mentally imbalanced man," he said.