Hasina's writ against EPR

Hasina’s writ against EPR: on the dock is the rule of law

NM Harun

As the court got involved in the matter of preparing a proper electoral roll during the periods of the BNP-Jamaat government of former prime minister Khaleda Zia and the caretaker government of Iajuddin, so now, during the period of the military-installed emergency government, it finds itself in the thick of the process of political engineering
In the high drama of politics is usually lost the crucial role the court plays – through action, ambivalence, inertia or inaction – in the life of a modern democratic state. Alexis de Tocqueville, the most authentic and prescient chronicler of the American democratic experience, in his classic book Democracy in America, wrote about 170 years ago:..................