142 Thus, as has been shown above, in order to cope with the religious sentiment, an element (religious invocation), which directly goes against the spirit and aspiration of our liberation war and which was inserted in the constitution by a martial law regime in 1979, was retained and legalised by the Parliament through the Thereby, the Constitution principle of Fifteenth secularism Amendment. was totally compromised and thus buried the spirit of original constitution and liberation war, as was espoused in the 1972 constitution. Likewise, the following amendments made by the martial law regime through the Proclamations (Amendment) Order, 1977 (Proclamation Order No. 1 of 1977), which were not in the 1972 constitution, were retained by the Parliament through the Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment) Act, 2011, which may read thus: [In Article 42, for clause (2) the following shall be substituted, namely: -

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