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Recent top news in Bangladesh is dismissing the rule of caretaker government i.e. caretaker government are require for general election .Awami League cordially accept this. But Bangladeshi opposition groups are not agree with the present government decision. For this reason they called for a countrywide dawn to dust strike on Sunday to protest the government’s decision to discard the non-partisan interim government system to oversee the general election.
The caretaker government system is embodied in the Bangladesh constitution to ensure a free, fair, neutral and acceptable general election in 90 days.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary-general of the mainstream opposition Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP), announced the shutdown at a press conference on Wednesday.
The opposition threatened that they would not participate in upcoming general elections, scheduled in late 2013, if the provision was scrapped.
It is the fifth general strike since the current Awami League-led government came to power in early January 2009.
Alamgir said that just four weeks ago the prime minister herself spoke in support of a caretaker government during her meeting with the parliamentary unique committee to study constitutional amendments.
The Supreme Court on May 10 repealed the 13th Amendment to the constitution that introduced the notorious caretaker government in 1996. The government argues that there is no opportunity for the neutral government to hold the election, while the section should be deleted immediately.
Opposition groups fear the government would manipulate its administrative powers to spoil a free, fair and suitable election.
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