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82 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তনে বেসামরিক শাসন প্রতিষ্ঠার বাংলাদেশ ত্র্যাসোসিয়েশন অফ নিউ__১৪ জুলাই ১৯৭১ সম্পকে একটি প্রতিবেদন PRESIDENT YAHYA KHAN SLATEST FORMULA FOR RESTORATION OF ΟΙVΙLΙΑΝΚULΕΙΝΡΑΚΙSΤΑΝ: ΑΝΑΝΑΙ ΥSΙS Bangladesh Association of New England July 14, 1971 Under pressure from the World Powers and the international organizations like the World Bank, President Yahya Khan has been obliged to offer a plan for restoration of civilian rule in Pakistan. Nothing could be more farcical than his plan announced on June 28, 1971. He has foreseen the initiation of a process through which power will be transferred to the elected representatives of the people in the course of four months or so. Even after civilian governments are formed they will have the cover of martial law However, it is not the ineffective nature of the governments to be established, but the manner in which they will be called to being is what is most amusing. Constitution to be Drafted by a Committee of Experts The plan has laid down that the members who were elected to the National Assembly with the primary purpose of drawing up a constitution will now lose that right. Instead a Committee of Experts has been appointed to draft a constitution, with the promulgation of which the various elected Assemblies at the National and the Provincial levels will start functioning. After a country-wide regular election has been held and people's representatives chosen to write up a Constitution, there is no room for any so-called expert body to abrogate that right from the elected representatives. This amounts to imposing by the regime on the people a Constitution of its own make. Such an authoritarian Constitution win have no legal validity under whatever martial law order it might be inducted. Such a Constitution will not have any prospect of lasting long, as did not the Constitution given by the former President Ayub Khan. This speaks not only of an ignorance of the democratic process, but also a calculated avoidance of that process for fear of being confronted with something unpalatable to the army rulers. But who have given this inalienable right to the army rulers to give Constitution to the country from time to time? Nature of the Constitution The nature of the Constitution has also been indicated by Yahya Khan. According to him, this will give greater autonomy to the provinces, but at the same time will ensure a stronger Central Government. This becomes self-contradictory and only jugglery of words. After what has happened to the Bengalis since the 25th March, 1971 due to army action no measure of autonomy will be acceptable to them. The ruthless and planned