The main demand of the assembly was not to appoint Khondokar Mahmud Hasan as Justice in the imminent caretaker government to conduct the general elections scheduled for January 2007.
According to the then Awami League, the BNP amended the constitution to increase the retirement age of judges so that K M Hasan could be the chief adviser to the caretaker government.
[3] The Awami League and its allies called a rally on 28 October 2006 in Bangabandhu Avenue in the Paltan area of Dhaka, where many people showed up with boat-hooks and oars.
[8] After the formation of the Awami League government in 2009, it decided to withdraw the cases filed against their party leaders, supporters and well-wishers in different parts of the country.
[8] On 31 May 2007, Kotwali Model Police Station Sub-Inspector Sultan Mahmud Chowdhurya filed a chargesheet against 19 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its affiliates.
The case (which was filed by Abdur Rahman on 8 November 2008) alleged that these 19 people has vandalised, set fire to and looted the office of the Islamic Social Welfare Council.