Dhaka, Oct. 18 -- Believing that addressing the imperfections in Bangladesh's Constitution is sufficient to address the issue of good governance is "childish", says Supreme Court Advocate Shahdeen Malik.

"We started with the premise that definitely we had a horrible sort of government, in all senses of the term," he told bdnews24.com's "Inside Out" on Saturday. "But we somehow hit upon the idea that if we change the Constitution, the country will get better."

"The whole discussion over the past year was premised on the fact that if you have a beautifully written Constitution, you will have democracy, you will have everything, social justice and all that. Whether a country is democratic or not really doesn't depend on the constitution. I...