DHAKA: Bangladesh’s acting president justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Wednesday said he wished to step down as the political consensus that installed him six months earlier did not exist anymore.
Justice Ahmed said a minister of state of the ruling Bangladesh nationalist party had said the acting president could hand power at his will to parliament speaker. The Statement the president said meant that he (Justice Ahmed) was clinging to power.
The remark of the minister of state in the last session of parliament could not be construed as his personal view as the ruling party did not refute it he said. This showed that the consensus among three major political alliances which installed him in office after the resignation of ousted president H M Ershad on December 6 latical alliances which installed him in officer after the resignation of ousted president H M Ershad on December 6 last year ceased to exist he added
Justice Ahmed said he had agreed to be the interim president of the condition that after parliamentary elections he would tum to his original position as the chief justice of Bangladesh
He appealed to the parliament whose _ Session begins on June 11 to amend the Constitution to pave the way for his exit.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 14, 1991
