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Khaleda 'leaves' her memories
Sun, Nov 14th, 2010 12:23 am
Dhaka, Nov 13 (bdnews24com) BNP chief Khaleda Zia had to leave her home of nearly four decades from where she saw her husband Ziaur Rahman's rise and fall.
Law enforcers made her leave the cantonment residence on Saturday afternoon following a High Court order that essentially asked Khaleda to vacate the house where she had come to live in 1972 with her husband as adjutant general.
The drama began to heighten from Friday evening when, albeit differences of opinion, a month's deadline expired. A close aide of Khaleda dispelled rumours that she was leaving the house 6 Mainul Road in Dhaka Cantonment of her own volition, which he said was government propaganda.
Khaleda finally had to move out of the house around 3:15pm on Saturday amid heavy security, where law enforcers had gathered from morning to pack off the leader of the opposition.
Later in the evening, she told a press conference: "They've uprooted me from my age-old memories."
She had moved to the house in 1972 after a short stint as Brigade Commander of Comilla. In less than three months, he was made deputy chief of army staff.
Gen Zia, founder of BNP, continued to live in the house, situated over almost three acres of land, when he became the first military ruler and subsequently the president of Bangladesh.
After Zia's assassination on May 30, 1981, the then interim president Abdus Sattar leased the house to the family.
With her two sons Tarique and Arafat Rahman Coco, Khaleda continued to live in that house.
Later as BNP chairperson in the late 80s, Khaleda led the movement against Ershad's military rule alongside the Awami League from that house.
Khaleda chose not to move to a government residence even after elected prime minister in 1991.
She also decided not to leave the house after she lost power in the 1996 polls and became the opposition leader and continued to live there after she was reelected prime minister for the second time in 2001.
During the last military-installed interim government, Khaleda was arrested from her cantonment home placed in a special jail at Shere-Bangla Nagar. She, however, went back after she was freed.
In April 8, 2009, a cabinet meeting, presided over by prime minister Sheikh Hasina, decided to cancel the lease of the house, which was followed by a notice to vacate the house issued by the cantonment authorities on April 20 the same year.
The notice was reissued twice on May 7 and May 24 last year.
On May 3, 2009, Khaleda filed a petition with the High Court challenging the legality of the notice.
The High Court on Oct 13, 2010, rejected the petition and ordered her to vacate the house by Nov 12.
The court declared that the house was illegally leased in Khaleda's favour.
On Nov 8, Khaleda filed a leave to appeal with the Appellate Division in a bid to overturn the High Court verdict.
Hearing of the appeal was adjourned until Nov 29 by a regular bench of the Appellate Division, headed by chief justice A B M Khairul Haque, on Nov 10.
However, the bench did not put a stay order on the High Court ruling.
Several ruling party lawyers and the attorney general made contradictory comments following the decision of the bench.
The Inter Services Public Relations in a statement on Saturday said Khaleda was leaving the cantonment residence willingly after several days of preparations, which was claimed as "a total lie" by the BNP chairperson at a press briefing in the evening.
Awami League leaders and several independent analysts critisised her living in the cantonment area as a politician, which made it difficult for her party leaders and supporters to reach her during times of crisis.
BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury recently told reporters that he does not want the party chief living in a place, where it is hard for the party activists to reach her.
Several BNP leaders, however, said that they think that the decision to cancel the lease was motivated by Hasina's personal vendetta against her political nemesis.
During the last Awami League term, the Ganabhaban and a Dhanmondi house were allotted to Hasina and her sister, Sheikh Rehana, respectively as the only surviving children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The BNP-led government cancelled the allotments when it assumed power in 2001.
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Khaleda 'leaves' her memories
Sun, Nov 14th, 2010 12:23 am
Dhaka, Nov 13 (bdnews24com) BNP chief Khaleda Zia had to leave her home of nearly four decades from where she saw her husband Ziaur Rahman's rise and fall.
Law enforcers made her leave the cantonment residence on Saturday afternoon following a High Court order that essentially asked Khaleda to vacate the house where she had come to live in 1972 with her husband as adjutant general.
The drama began to heighten from Friday evening when, albeit differences of opinion, a month's deadline expired. A close aide of Khaleda dispelled rumours that she was leaving the house 6 Mainul Road in Dhaka Cantonment of her own volition, which he said was government propaganda.
Khaleda finally had to move out of the house around 3:15pm on Saturday amid heavy security, where law enforcers had gathered from morning to pack off the leader of the opposition.
Later in the evening, she told a press conference: "They've uprooted me from my age-old memories."
She had moved to the house in 1972 after a short stint as Brigade Commander of Comilla. In less than three months, he was made deputy chief of army staff.
Gen Zia, founder of BNP, continued to live in the house, situated over almost three acres of land, when he became the first military ruler and subsequently the president of Bangladesh.
After Zia's assassination on May 30, 1981, the then interim president Abdus Sattar leased the house to the family.
With her two sons Tarique and Arafat Rahman Coco, Khaleda continued to live in that house.
Later as BNP chairperson in the late 80s, Khaleda led the movement against Ershad's military rule alongside the Awami League from that house.
Khaleda chose not to move to a government residence even after elected prime minister in 1991.
She also decided not to leave the house after she lost power in the 1996 polls and became the opposition leader and continued to live there after she was reelected prime minister for the second time in 2001.
During the last military-installed interim government, Khaleda was arrested from her cantonment home placed in a special jail at Shere-Bangla Nagar. She, however, went back after she was freed.
In April 8, 2009, a cabinet meeting, presided over by prime minister Sheikh Hasina, decided to cancel the lease of the house, which was followed by a notice to vacate the house issued by the cantonment authorities on April 20 the same year.
The notice was reissued twice on May 7 and May 24 last year.
On May 3, 2009, Khaleda filed a petition with the High Court challenging the legality of the notice.
The High Court on Oct 13, 2010, rejected the petition and ordered her to vacate the house by Nov 12.
The court declared that the house was illegally leased in Khaleda's favour.
On Nov 8, Khaleda filed a leave to appeal with the Appellate Division in a bid to overturn the High Court verdict.
Hearing of the appeal was adjourned until Nov 29 by a regular bench of the Appellate Division, headed by chief justice A B M Khairul Haque, on Nov 10.
However, the bench did not put a stay order on the High Court ruling.
Several ruling party lawyers and the attorney general made contradictory comments following the decision of the bench.
The Inter Services Public Relations in a statement on Saturday said Khaleda was leaving the cantonment residence willingly after several days of preparations, which was claimed as "a total lie" by the BNP chairperson at a press briefing in the evening.
Awami League leaders and several independent analysts critisised her living in the cantonment area as a politician, which made it difficult for her party leaders and supporters to reach her during times of crisis.
BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury recently told reporters that he does not want the party chief living in a place, where it is hard for the party activists to reach her.
Several BNP leaders, however, said that they think that the decision to cancel the lease was motivated by Hasina's personal vendetta against her political nemesis.
During the last Awami League term, the Ganabhaban and a Dhanmondi house were allotted to Hasina and her sister, Sheikh Rehana, respectively as the only surviving children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The BNP-led government cancelled the allotments when it assumed power in 2001.
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A country's PM is busy evicting the opposition leader from her house when the country is undergoing power crisis, food price inflation and law & order deterioration.
A country's opposition politicians, the individuals who are tasked with looking after the country's greater interests as political watchdogs, are mourning day & night at the mere loss of the personal property of their Queen.
And all my fellow countrymen here are magnifying the importance of this event and getting all emotional, being the typical Bangalis we are. Makes me sick.
A country's opposition politicians, the individuals who are tasked with looking after the country's greater interests as political watchdogs, are mourning day & night at the mere loss of the personal property of their Queen.
And all my fellow countrymen here are magnifying the importance of this event and getting all emotional, being the typical Bangalis we are. Makes me sick.
Was the house owned by Khalida Zia or was it govt. property?
It it was owned by her then this is wrong, if its govt. property, then Khaleda Zia should have left the house after getting the notice instead of waiting till she got evicted.
It it was owned by her then this is wrong, if its govt. property, then Khaleda Zia should have left the house after getting the notice instead of waiting till she got evicted.
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This house were given by govt to her and resistered in her name but due do some annomily over leasind process the cantonment board who gave this hoouse to her the govt decided eto evict her from this house .this move is more then political then anythink judicial.
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I hope the whole house is demolished with a bulldozer. Stop talking about the house and start concentrating on the transit issue you opposition party morons!
I agree with you the opposition should concentrate more on transit issue then the house issue but this house is not just a house but also a history of a freedom fighter president and a widows strugle in bangladesesh's politics .
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This is not just court decision but demostration of revenge by Hasia.any way we are sad and angryin this move .
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A country's PM is busy evicting the opposition leader from her house when the country is undergoing power crisis, food price inflation and law & order deterioration.
A country's opposition politicians, the individuals who are tasked with looking after the country's greater interests as political watchdogs, are mourning day & night at the mere loss of the personal property of their Queen.
And all my fellow countrymen here are magnifying the importance of this event and getting all emotional, being the typical Bangalis we are. Makes me sick.
super like buddy....!!!Cheers!!!
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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.
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Cheers!!!
I got sort of sick seeing the Begum centered politics.
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Shops shut across Bangladesh for opposition strike
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press © 2010 The Associated Press
Nov. 13, 2010, 11:21PM
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Schools and businesses were shut across Bangladesh on Sunday as the country's main opposition party enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike to protest the eviction of its leader from a military-owned home.
Security officials were on alert as hundreds of supporters of Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party demonstrated outside the party headquarters in downtown Dhaka. Police strung barbed wire around the headquarters to keep demonstrators away.
Dhaka's busiest commercial districts were mostly deserted Sunday, a normal work day, and only a handful of vehicles were on the streets.
The strike follows clashes Saturday between police and opposition supporters who were trying to stop Zia — who served as prime minister from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006 — from being evicted from the home, where she has lived for 30 years.
The dispute is the latest sign of the bitter rivalry between Bangladesh's two major parties — headed by Zia and her archrival, current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina — as Bangladesh's democracy struggles to return to normalcy following the restoration of an elected government in 2008 after nearly two years under a state of emergency.
Zia's close aide Khandaker Delwar Hossain said the strike was being enforced peacefully across the country.
ATN Bangla television station reported that protesters were gathered in other major cities and towns across the country, but there were no reports of major violence.
Some fear the strike will be the start of prolonged unrest.
"I am afraid chaos will return," Abul Kalam Azad, a school teacher, told The Associated Press as he waited at a bus stop in Dhaka's Malibagh area. "Nobody bothers about the people's sufferings."
Military authorities said Saturday that Zia left the house voluntarily to respect an order of the High Court that gave her until Oct. 30 to vacate the house. The military asked Zia last year to leave the home, saying she violated the conditions for her stay there by conducting politics from inside a military area.
Zia filed a petition with the High Court challenging the military notice, but the court dismissed it. Zia has appealed that order, and the Supreme Court is to hear the case on Nov. 29.
General strikes are a common opposition tactic in politically unstable Bangladesh and have been known to turn violent.
Shops shut across Bangladesh for opposition strike | Top AP Stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press © 2010 The Associated Press
Nov. 13, 2010, 11:21PM
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Schools and businesses were shut across Bangladesh on Sunday as the country's main opposition party enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike to protest the eviction of its leader from a military-owned home.
Security officials were on alert as hundreds of supporters of Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party demonstrated outside the party headquarters in downtown Dhaka. Police strung barbed wire around the headquarters to keep demonstrators away.
Dhaka's busiest commercial districts were mostly deserted Sunday, a normal work day, and only a handful of vehicles were on the streets.
The strike follows clashes Saturday between police and opposition supporters who were trying to stop Zia — who served as prime minister from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006 — from being evicted from the home, where she has lived for 30 years.
The dispute is the latest sign of the bitter rivalry between Bangladesh's two major parties — headed by Zia and her archrival, current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina — as Bangladesh's democracy struggles to return to normalcy following the restoration of an elected government in 2008 after nearly two years under a state of emergency.
Zia's close aide Khandaker Delwar Hossain said the strike was being enforced peacefully across the country.
ATN Bangla television station reported that protesters were gathered in other major cities and towns across the country, but there were no reports of major violence.
Some fear the strike will be the start of prolonged unrest.
"I am afraid chaos will return," Abul Kalam Azad, a school teacher, told The Associated Press as he waited at a bus stop in Dhaka's Malibagh area. "Nobody bothers about the people's sufferings."
Military authorities said Saturday that Zia left the house voluntarily to respect an order of the High Court that gave her until Oct. 30 to vacate the house. The military asked Zia last year to leave the home, saying she violated the conditions for her stay there by conducting politics from inside a military area.
Zia filed a petition with the High Court challenging the military notice, but the court dismissed it. Zia has appealed that order, and the Supreme Court is to hear the case on Nov. 29.
General strikes are a common opposition tactic in politically unstable Bangladesh and have been known to turn violent.
Shops shut across Bangladesh for opposition strike | Top AP Stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
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She was kicked out because she raised voice against the transit week ago. I did not see Shaitan but one thing for sure that his face can not be worse than La-Hasina. I hate the face of this dalal. Really!!!!
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