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Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq has said the government
agrees in principle on quota reform and is ready to hold talks with the quota
reform protesters.
"Prime
Minister has given me and Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury the
responsibility to hold talks with them. We want to have talks with them
whenever they want, if they want to hold talks today, we are ready to do
this," the law minister said while briefing the media on Jatiya Sangsad
Bhaban premises this afternoon.
"I
want to call upon them, and request them to withdraw or suspend their
movements," he added. "The rule of law prevails in Bangladesh.
Whenever any matter comes to the court, it gets disposed of in the court.
Whenever the hearing over quota would start in the court, the state would
propose to reform the quota system and it would get disposed of in court,"
Anisul added.
Mentioning
that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had scrapped the quota system in government
jobs in 2018, the law minister said the children of Freedom Fighters filed the
writ petition with the High Court against that government circular.
"The
students did not become a party in the case. They started raising movements for
quota reform after the judgment of the High Court. We again called upon them to
become a party in the case as the matter is pending before the court. We are
again requesting them to stop this movement," the law minister further
said.
