"Keeping Mps under the thumb"
Major (Retd) Akhtaruzzaman, a former MP Kishoreganj, has written an article under the above caption in the Political Reform section of your 14 January anniversary special issue. Mr. Akhtaruzzaman is very critical about Article 70 of the constitution as an MP cannot vote against the party he or she belongs to. He has questioned the quality of MPs, their role in parliament and so on.
Mr. Akhtaruzzaman happened to be a JS standing committee member and he was very much critical about the performances of the institutions of which he was a member and he did not hesitate to recommend penal actions against many of those institutions.
The truth of the matter is that there are too many shady deals in different sectors that need to be investigated as not many individuals appear to be above question.
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