Attorney General AM Amin Uddin said that there was no point questioning Mohammed Shahabuddin's election as the country's 22nd president as the election had been held in completely legal way.
He told this to the journalists at his office in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The attorney general further said: “If we read articles 48, 66 and 147 of the constitution, it will be seen that the post of president does not fall under the lucrative post in any way. The president is by no means a person engaged in the work of government.”
He said that when Shahabuddin Ahmed became president a lawyer filed a writ citing his post as lucrative. After hearing of the writ, the High Court clearly made several announcements. One of which is that the president is not an officer of the republic appointed to a position of profit.
Mohammed Shahabuddin, a former commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, retired district and sessions judge, and freedom fighter, was declared as president-elect of Bangladesh on Monday.
Shahabuddin became president-elect by default as no one else submitted any nominations.
