The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called the statements made by two Awami League ministers about the chief justice “audacious, threatening and an act of political hooliganism.”
The out-of-parliament opposition party alleged that ruling party ministers were threatening the chief justice because the party had failed to take control of the judiciary.
“They [the Awami League] are desperate to undermine the neutrality and individuality of the three branches of government – the executive, the judiciary and the legislative branch,” BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan office on Sunday.
Criticising the ministers, Rizvi called the statements an example of the “Feni Hajari” culture.
At several programmes on Saturday, two ministers criticised Chief Justice SK Sinha for his reported remark that “the prosecution is doing politics with the trial of condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali.”
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said: “I would request the Chief Justice to withdraw his statement. Otherwise, I would let him judge how much scope there is for him to stay in the post.”
Food Minister Quamrul Islam criticised SK Sinha's statement as well.