Dhaka, June 16 -- The Bangladesh Secretariat Officers and Employees Unity Council has called for a large-scale gathering at the Secretariat's Badamtala if the government refuses to revoke the Public Service (Amendment) Ordinance.

The announcement was made at a rally outside the Ministry of Public Administration and the Cabinet Division on Monday.

Mujahidul Islam Selim, the Council's secretary general, urged all Secretariat staff to start department-based processions, which will come together in a mass rally at 11am on Tuesday.

Addressing the interim government's law advisor, Selim said: "The advisor claimed he was abroad when the law was passed, implying that had he been present, the ordinance would never have been approved."

He quest...