UNB, Dhaka

Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said Bangladesh should have her own brand of democracy as he observed Westminster model is not truly followed by the party in power.
In his significant remark, the Army Chief, whose force is backing the caretaker government in sweeping reforms in the interim period, he observed that Westminster-type democracy had been exercised in Bangladesh in the last 15 years, but without following the true essence of the Westminster form of parliament. “In our democracy, Prime Minister completely becomes one-man show,” he said, adding, “what we actually follow here is not the Westminster form. [Read more]