The High Court has admitted the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as an intervenor in a writ petition seeking the cancellation of the 15th amendment to the Constitution, which abolished the widely debated caretaker government system, among other issues.
A High Court bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debasish Roy Chowdhury granted the intervention request after BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir submitted it.
Senior lawyer Zainul Abedin represented the petitioners in court.
The 15th amendment was passed in the National Parliament on June 30, 2011.
This amendment recognized Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the "Father of the Nation" and abolished the caretaker government system.
It also increased the number of reserved seats for women in parliament from 45 to 50.
However, on August 19 of this year, the High Court issued a rule asking why the 15th amendment, which eliminated the caretaker government, should not be declared illegal.
