Bangladesh, Oct. 19 -- Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Monday said Article 70 of the constitution has crippled the parliamentary government system.

"MPs can't vote against the party's decision due to Article 70 and this is why a dictatorship or autocracy is established in parliament," he said.

Quader, also the deputy opposition leader in parliament, said parliamentary democracy had been introduced in the country as per outlines of the three alliances in 1991 as his brother HM Ershad quit power.

"But in the name of establishing parliamentary democracy, the institutional dictatorship was established in the country by changing the presidential form of government system. As per the system, the head of the party that gets a majority in t...