Amid the protest of the cadre officers of the administration regarding the proposal of preserving 50 percent quota for admin cadres and rests 50 percent for other 25 cadres, the admin cadre officers on Wednesday gave a 48-hour ultimatum to Public Administration Reform Commission Chairman Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury to resign.
The ultimatum was given from a protest meeting jointly organized by Bangladesh Administrative Service Association (BASA) and BCS (Admin) Welfare Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd at BIAM Auditorium in Dhaka.
BASA President Dr Md Anwar Ullah presided over the meeting while BCS (Admin) Welfare Multipurpose Cooperative Society President ABM Abdus Sattar, BASA Secretary General Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman, Land Ministry Senior Secretary ASM Saleh Ahmed, Mashihur Rahman, an officer from the 1985 batch, Dhaka Deputy Commissioner Tanvir Ahmed and other members of the two organizations also spoke.
The organizers claimed that the protest meeting was arranged against the conspiracy of creating instability in the country by derailing the administration with the recommendation of the reform commission.
ABM Abdus Sattar said, "When I was coming to join the meeting, two of my batchmates have requested me not to announce any programme here. I think the meeting worked as an antibiotic."
"Today, the movement has just started. To save the BCS family, we have to work more hard. We can hold programmes like work abstention, strike, hunger strike and grand rally. My proposal is to hold a grand rally in Dhaka on January 4. Antibiotic of 500 power would be given there. If it is done, there will be no need for operation (surgery) anymore," he added.
Sattar said, "Two bullets (poisonous teeth) were fired. The tooth must be removed. A poisoned tooth is Public Administration Reforms Commission chief Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury. He is a disgraced person in his private and family life. He is a controversial official as an employee and beneficiary. He is an officer of the Pakistan Civil Service. He forgot his own birth."
"He (Muyeed) must be removed from the commission. If he is not removed, we know the strategy how he could be removed," he added.
In a view exchange meeting with journalists on December 17, Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury informed that the commission is likely to propose the government to change existing provision of promotion and preserve 50 per cent posts for the admin cadres and rests 50 per cent for the other 25 cadres.
He also stated that the commission would also propose excluding the education and health services from the Bangladesh Civil Service.
The admin cadre get 75 per cent and other cadres 25 per cent, according to the existing promotion rules.
Earlier in last week, the Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council, an organisation of the deprived 25 cadres, has announced programmes of rally in Dhaka on December 4. It has already observed one-hour work abstention from 11:00am to 12:00pm on Tuesday.
Today (Thursday), the other cadres will form human chain programme in front of their own offices.
Besides, the Inter-Ministry Employees Association on Wednesday urged the government to scrap the proposal of the reform commission to preserve 50 per cent quota for the admin cadres and 50 per cent for others instead of existing provisions.
In a statement, Association Spokesperson Md Nazrul Islam demanded continuing the existing provision of 75 per cent quota for the admin cadres and 25 per cent for the other cadres.
