Police, Rab enter Khaleda house premises

[TopCat]

I can't control my emotion when I see tear in eye. What is right or wrong this is court's decision but this a very sad moment.

Here is the point. When a leader cant even control her own emotion for a silly house, how could we expect her to lay down her beloved for the sake of country. Does she deserve to be a PM or a leader of her magnitude? I felt sorry for her.

 

[saleen_s7]

Silly house? i am sorry, but being a civilized nation means to empathize with peoples sorrows even they are wrong. Didn't we protest when Sheikh hasina wasn't allowed in the country? People may have wronged but it is the duty of us, the responsible ones, to talk against any unruly movements by the government.
As shes being evicted from her house forcefully and harrassed, the awami propogandas once again enlightened the naive masses, making them believe shes crying for a house and because of greediness.
Its the current govt who is to be blamed for the chaos right now in the country,which they have created from scratch.

 

[Evil Flare]

Democrazy at its Best

 

[integra]

Let me throw in some points also. I don't support any political presence in the cantonment area, heck I don't even understand how a party chairperson lives there for so many years. Political party and armed forces when mixed together is bad news. Still there are laws in the country and she deserves proper respect because at least someone no matter how good or bad, has been working for the county. Thats why I don't support the way she was evicted.
While AL isn't really learning from past experiences,I don't understand what happens to this parties when they go to power.

EDIT: Now ISPR claims that she was not evicted but she went away on her own will understanding the fact that there were no other options.

 

[Md Akmal]

Let me throw in some points also. I don't support any political presence in the cantonment area, heck I don't even understand how a party chairperson lives there for so many years. Political party and armed forces when mixed together is bad news. Still there are laws in the country and she deserves proper respect because at least someone no matter how good or bad, has been working for the county. Thats why I don't support the way she was evicted.
While AL isn't really learning from past experiences,I don't understand what happens to this parties when they go to power.

EDIT: Now ISPR claims that she was not evicted but she went away on her own will understanding the fact that there were no other options.

Why you are blaming ISPR ? All security forces are same, be it army , police, RAB, Ansars etc all are the servants of the govt, what the govt dictate they are just carrying out the order. It's simple.

 

[fallstuff]

Not a lot of love lost for loosing her house. Having said that, Hasina is pretty good in following up on her personal agenda. Her priorities are the name of Mujib must be engraved on everything and Bangladesh is practically owned by her family.

Waiting to see what Khaleda does with the equity Hasina gave her !

 

[Skies]

If she would leave that house on her own will then she would be prepared, she would do her breakfast properly and then she would leave after packing her everything at afternoon. Why would she leave without doing her breakfast and any preparation in the early morning. The fact is the ISPR went to her home in the early morning to harass her. BTW, BNP should tackle this in peaceful way - that may bring public support to them. Otherwise because of AL's deception most of the people are in a dream that AL is making Golden BD. In every occasion, every meeting they are saying that we are doing it, we are doing that - but nothing in practical......

AL is bloody, otherwise how could they change the name of China-Bangladesh friendship conference center which was a gift of China to BD.

 

[monitor]

Here is the point. When a leader cant even control her own emotion for a silly house, how could we expect her to lay down her beloved for the sake of country. Does she deserve to be a PM or a leader of her magnitude? I felt sorry for her.

This tear is not just for the love for her house but for the memory it hold the memoir of late shahid zia and living with her sons and grandsons with 30 years.

 

[monitor]

Who cares. We as a nation consume more doses of history related BS from politicians everyday than any other on Earth. Let's destroy all historical monuments and establishments, ban hanging pictures of dead political leaders and imprison all politicians referring to the past in their speech. We need to move on before it's too late!
The clock is ticking, and only those democratically "stable" Asian countries will reap all the benefits of foreign investment -> industrial growth -> economic boom in the upcoming Asian Era. History? F it.

May be our current political leaders are doing somehing that should not done with our late leaders .but this is not the dead leaders fault but the weakness of our politician who does not carry any charishma like sheik muzib or ziaur rahaman thats why they hold the picture and stutus e of late leaders to gain public support .we should honour our late leaders keaping their wrong doing aside and holding their good work as the mentor for future development.

 

[eastwatch]

Khaleda lying: ISPR | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com



Khaleda lying: ISPR
Sun, Nov 14th, 2010 2:19 pm

Dhaka, Nov 14 (bdnews24.com) — Refuting Khaleda Zia's allegations, the military has claimed that she left the cantonment of her own volition.

Referring to the BNP chief's statements of Saturday, the military's public relations (ISPR) director termed them 'deceitful, fabricated and ill-motivated'.

ISPR director Shahinul Islam also stated in a press conference on Sunday that the leader of the opposition had been extremely abusive towards the military personnel as she left her residence on 6 Mainul Road in Dhaka Cantonment.

According to the military's press release of Saturday, as well as Islam's claim at the briefing, Khaleda had called the army men 'national enemies' as she was made to leave.

Shahinul Islam also claimed that the BNP chief kept threatening the army personnel present at her house on Saturday as the premises were being evacuated. She had apparently threatened to sack everyone there when she returned to power.

The cantonment board initiated to vacate the Shaheed Mainul Road residence after the High Court deadline ended on Nov 12, he claimed. The opposition leader left her house at about 3:15pm on Saturday for her Gulshan office.

A tearful Khaleda Zia accused the military of dragging her out of the house during a press conference on Saturday evening refuting the military's repeated claim that Khaleda had willingly left her house.

The military press release stated that Khaleda appeared 'unwilling' to hasten her departure. It said she took all the time in the world to get ready. "She began to act up rather badly, when at one point when two policewomen knocked on her window," it reads.

The statement goes on, "She didn't even hesitate to call the military men 'ungrateful dogs' and 'national enemy'."

Islam added in the press conference, reading out from the press release, that Khaleda had yelled at them, "I'm marking everyone. Everyone will be sacked once I return to power."

However, Khaleda Zia had accused the military of breaking down her bedroom door and dragging her out on Saturday's press conference.

In support of its original claim that Khaleda had vacated her house willingly, the ISPR director said that the cantonment officials had gone to the house at 8am. "She could have been dragged out right then, if she were actually forced out."

"But the fact is that she left the cantonment residence in her own car at 3:15pm. This is proof enough of her leaving the house willingly."

"Her employees packed 10 bags and four cartons of household goods. She also inspected the rooms of the house to see whether everything was sorted out," said Shahinul.

The military statement claimed that presence of eight vehicles of the latest models and 67 helping hands in the house where only one family resided are clear signs of her luxurious life.

The cantonment house is currently under police custody, it said.

The 2.72-acre plot was originally the official residence of the army's deputy chief of staff, a position held by Ziaur Rahman, who later became army chief and then president.

Former military dictator H M Ershad, who later became president, allotted the house to Khaleda and her two sons following the assassination of Ziaur Rahman, in a military coup on May 30 in 1981.

His widow Khaleda was given another house in Gulshan in addition to the cantonment house, where the family has been living since 1972.

The Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments handed a notice on Apr 20 last year asking the BNP chief to vacate her cantonment residence.

Khaleda filed a petition with the High Court challenging legality of the government notice asking her to leave the house within 15 days.

The government maintained its stand with two separate notices on May 7 and May 24.

On May 27 last year, the court stayed the notices for three months after the initial hearing.

The final hearing started on June 6 the same year. On Aug 23, the court asked the government to submit all files in relation to the lease of the cantonment house.

The government gave a legal notice to Khaleda for a number of anomalies regarding the allotment within the military zone.

The allegations and irregularities for which the notice was issued include 1) Khaleda has been carrying out political activities from the house – which goes against a condition of the allotment 2) One cannot get allotment of two government houses in the capital 3) A civilian cannot get a residence lease inside a cantonment.

The government also alleged that unauthorised changes and extensions were made to the building violating the code of conduct in the military area.

bdnews24.com/rb/mi/rn/shk/1800h

 

[eastwatch]

If the statement given by ISPR is true, then, it is needless to say that Begum Zia remains as mean as she always was. From the very beginning, she should have vacated the house to the country. She should understand that the country, after the death of her husband, has in many ways looked after her and her children. But, she wants something that does not belong to her. The lease agreement was done through a wrong process.

However, the Begum PM is also no less stupid and mean than her rival in the opposition. The govt should have waited for Supreme Court verdict. Begum Zia was not allowed to defend herself in the SC. However, calling strike for personal reason shows that the opposition Begum will not grow up. Both the Begums are dangerous to democracy.

 

[integra]

I remember when I was young there was a teacher who used to say Don't vote for the country because if you do then you are hurting her.
Days passes by and I still think thats true. Maybe someday things will change but not now. Lets just build something better out of whatever we have 'cos nor Mujib or Zia was our chacha,mama or dada(therefore not our business).

 

[saleen_s7]

Call me crazy but I really think the media's creating propagandas to tarnish the image of Khaleda Zia. So according to report, she was crying fake tears? and she left at her own will?

 

[integra]

Something becomes a propaganda only when it doesn't reflect your own perception, it is only relative. She was crying for real though. Who knows if it was fake then we might end up seeing Hasina crying fake tears, saying "I'm so soorrrryyy for your situation but what cud i do? I wish if I was there for you."
Man! Those two are just hilarious!

 

[idune]

Background and allotment process followed:

The property was allotted by the cabinet of the elected government of Justice Sattar. Ershad was the army chief. After the decision was made, cabinet division referred this to ministry of defense, who is in charge of the ‘military lands and Cantonments’ [ Allocation of Business, Job # 7] , instructed cantonment board to formulate the 99year lease.

There is a matter of PRINCIPLE, more than anything else, which must be valued, for the sake of national morality and rule of law:

1. The property was not illegally acquired; it was legally allotted by govt to Khaleda when Zia was killed.

2. This was her “primary residence”, current and main home for 38 years.

3. IF there is any legal controversy of “two govt homes” which is invalid because they were NOT procured from RAJUK, but awarded by state, then the “other” home is the one which should have been in question, by law, NOT the primary residence.

4. Cannot claim now that “Ershad and all his decisions are illegal” because, if he is illegal then why is Ershad in the Parliament sitting next to Hasina?

5. The property in question is primary home of CURRENT democratic Leader of Opposition, not a foreign resident or bogus mastan.

Therefore, to go back after 30 years and tell someone “your state-awarded property is not yours, because it now costs XX crore takas, XX acres of land and you are an old woman now. And btw, you did not deserve it anyway, so get out right now”, is absolutely the WORST Human Right abuse, and totally ILLEGAL in any law, for any nation. It sets the ultimate foundation for “MOGHER MULLUK”.

It is simply a matter of principle, the property rightfully belongs to Khaleda, and any emotional or military (ISPR) drama is irrelevant. THAT, should be the verdict of the SC, to setup rule of law in BD today.