STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The way the BNP government is repealing laws related to transparency, accountability, and protection of rights shows it has not learned from the past, said Shujan Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar yesterday.

He was speaking at a discussion, titled “Citizens’ Thoughts and Challenges Regarding Ordinances on Protection of Human Rights and an Independent Judiciary”, organised by Human Rights Support Society at the Jatiya Press Club.

Badiul, former chief of the Election Reform Commission, questioned why the BNP government is repealing such laws and whether this reflects the “curse” of a more than two-thirds majority in parliament.

Referring to the repeal of ordinances on Supreme Court judge appointments and the Supreme Court Secretariat, he said, “We do not understand why BNP did this.”

Recalling 2018, he said he had seen “thousands of BNP leaders and activists waiting at the High Court seeking bail.”

Despite facing repression, they could He

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