STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Opposition Chief Whip and NCP Convener Nahid Islam yesterday renewed his demand in the parliament for the removal and arrest of President Mohammed Shahabuddin, branding him as “corrupt, incompetent, deceitful, and complicit in genocide”.

While taking part in the discussion on the thanksgiving motion on president’s address to the House, he also said the Consensus Commission was pressured through force to insert a “note of dissent” into the July Charter. “It is now time for the Consensus Commission members to speak out on the matter,” he said.

Coming down heavily on the president, Nahid, also a frontline leader of July uprising, said, “We made it very clear that the president must be removed and arrested. He has no right to remain in Bangabhaban or to deliver an address here (in the parliament).”

He went on to outline the president’s “misdeeds”, saying Shahabuddin was appointed as an Anti-Corruption Commission commissioner with three objectives -- to ensure corruption charges against Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman, to give Awami League a clean chit in the Padma Bridge corruption allegations, and to dismiss corruption cases against Sheikh Hasina and other Awami League leaders during the Fakhruddin-Moinuddin caretaker government.

Nahid questioned why the BNP government still accepts such a person as president.

Nahid acknowledged that he had once

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