AL govt has to answer to people one day

The Supreme Court Bar Association yesterday strongly protested the latest amendment to the constitution re-empowering the parliament to impeach SC judges, and demanded its immediate cancellation.
The protest came a day after the House unanimously passed the 16th amendment to the constitution on Wednesday.
“This change has been brought to put the independence of the judiciary under threat,” alleged SCBA President Khandker Mahbub Hossain.
“The Awami League government has to answer to the people for this one day,” he told a press briefing organised by the SCBA in its auditorium in the capital.
Mahbub Hossain alleged that the amendment was brought “illegally and immorally” to re-empower the parliament formed through a “voter-less January 5 election.”
Even though experts, intellectuals and the media were against it, the government has made the changes to control the judiciary politically, he further alleged.
According to the 16th amendment, the Supreme Judicial Council, that used to monitor the misconduct of judges, no longer exists. The parliament is now empowered to remove a judge for misconduct or incapacity, a provision that was included in the 1972 constitution.