Dhaka, May 10 -- Gono Forum has strongly opposed a proposal to amend the preamble of Bangladesh's Constitution during talks with the National Consensus Commission, arguing there is no scope to rewrite it and that no one except an elected government can amend it.

The party's leaders accused the Consensus Commission and the Constitutional Reform Commission of attempting to erase references to the Liberation War and the Declaration of Independence from the Constitution-an effort they firmly rejected.

The dialogue, held at the LD Hall of the parliament complex on Saturday from 3pm to 6pm, was attended by an 11-strong Gono Forum delegation led by the party's General Secretary Mizanur Rahman Khan.

After the meeting, Gono Forum Presidium memb...