Shafique echoes justice Khairul
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday echoed the comment of just-retired chief justice ABM Khairul Haque on the chief adviser of next caretaker government.
“The [just-retired] chief justice has already said that future will say who will be the chief of the [next] caretaker government. I agree with him. We can't say it now that who will be the next chief,” law minister told journalists after a memorial speech on Nalinikanta Bhattashali at National Museum in the city to mark the International Museum Day 2011.
Mentioning that the Supreme Court's (SC) verdict on caretaker government system has established “a policy of law,” he said, “The verdict is not contradictory to our constitution. We will have to respect the court's verdict.”
There is no legal scope to return the money to the persons who gave it to the Truth and Accountability Commission as they admitted that they earned the currency illegally, said the law minister while replying to a query.
The Supreme Court on May 16 upheld the High Court verdict that declared illegal the truth commission the Fakhruddin Ahmed-led caretaker government had formed as part of its anti-graft crackdown.
Earlier, Professor of Rajshahi University (RU) Emeritus ABM Hossain gave the memorial lecture recalling contribution of the first curator of Dhaka Museum Dr Nalinikanta Bhattashali.
Pointing out the poor condition of the museums of the country, Hossain said lack of fund and inspiration from local people as well as lack of skilled manpower and academic knowledge are responsible for this poor condition.
He urged for introducing the Museuology department in the university level. Though there are the Archaeology departments, but no Museuology department in the universities. Students are given knowledge to create things at the Archaeology department but no department is established to preserve those things, he added.
Hossain stressed the need for a policy on museum affairs and digitilisation of the museums.
Law minister pointed out that only museum could preserve the correct history of the country. “If the history about the birth of the country is preserved in the museum without any distortion, the next generation will learn about it properly,” he said.
Among others, Vice-chancellor of Dhaka University AAMS Arefin Siddique and Director General of Naitonal Museum Prakash Chandra Das spoke at the event.
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