Jamaat files petition to restore caretaker govt system

Jamaat-e-Islami has filed a petition with the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to scrap the caretaker government system.

Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar filed the petition on Wednesday.

Lawyer Shishir Monir confirmed the matter.

After the fall of military strongman HM Ershad's regime in 1990 in the face of a mass uprising, a general election was held under an interim government, although this arrangement was not yet formalised in the constitution.

In 1996, the BNP government, under pressure from opposition movements led by the Awami League, passed the 13th constitutional amendment in parliament, establishing the caretaker government system.