LDP disagrees on 42 of 166 reform proposals with Consensus Commission

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has disagreed on 42 reform proposals out of the 166 submitted by various reform commissions to the National Consensus Commission.

The party's Chairman Oli Ahmed made the disclosure before sitting at a meeting with the commission at the LD Hall of the Jatiya Sangsad building today (20 March).

"The LDP disagrees with 42, partially agrees to two and is unsure of two," said Oli Ahmed. However, he did not specify which proposals the party endorsed or rejected.

Speaking to reporters prior to the meeting, Oli said out of the 70 proposals related to constitutional reforms, the LDP agreed with 51, disagreed with 16, partially agreed with one, and considered two proposals unclear.

Besides, the LDP agrees with 22 of the 23 proposals for judicial reform, partially agreeing with one.

The party agrees with all 20 of the proposals to reform the Anti-Corruption Commission.

Furthermore, the LDP agrees with 11 of the 26 proposals for public administration reform and disagrees with 15.

The LDP chief also said his party will tell the commission that it agrees with 16 of the 27 proposals for electoral reform and disagrees with 11.

"Among all the recommendations, the recommendations made to reform the Election Commission were the weakest. They should have collected papers on the dialogue they had with political parties in the past."

Highlighting the importance of the role of two types of government officials in organising fair elections, he said, "No matter how much you do, you cannot make elections fair if two people are not working, one is the OC, the other is the UNO."

Later in the day, an eight-member LDP delegation met with the Consensus Commission with the latter's Vice Chairman Ali Riaz in the chair.

The commission will also sit with other political parties in phases.