Khaleda Zia can do politics: Law minister
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Clearing the smokescreen over Khaleda Zia’s participation in politics, Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday categorically said that the BNP chairperson can do her party politics if she wants.
“There is no external pressure for allowing Khaleda Zia in her party politics. People have the right to know the facts and thus I want to inform people through you (journalists) that she can do politics if she wants,” said the law minister.
Anisul made the statement while addressing a seminar organised by Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) at its auditorium in Dhaka.
BIISS held the seminar on the Rohingya Crisis and the Emerging Security Challenges: Response Strategy of Bangladesh.
Khaleda was released from jail on two conditions that she would receive treatment staying at her residence and will refrain from traveling abroad but no condition was imposed on her to stay away from politics, he said.
The government does believe in playing a game with BNP over the issue, Anisul said adding Khaleda’s active participation in politics will depend upon her health condition.
Earlier during an event in the capital on Sunday, the law minister said the BNP chairperson can take part in politics, but she is barred from contesting the next general election because of her conviction in connection with corruption cases.
The government will create any hindrance on her path of doing politics, Anisul said adding that it’s her personal matter whether she would do politics.
“The country’s constitution states that any person who has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment cannot participate in elections. There is nothing new to say in this regard,” said Anisul.
The BNP leader has been convicted in a case of corruption in Zia Orphanage Trust and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
In another corruption case involving Zia Charitable Trust, she has been given seven years of imprisonment.
But, she has been living in her Gulshan residence as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina allowed her on humanitarian grounds following a petition by her family.
