Opposition lawmaker Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Sunday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to withdraw her remarks on the winning candidates in the recent elections of five city corporations and seek apology from the people. The prime minister at a function at her official residence Ganabhaban on Saturday branded the winners as “corrupt and terrorists” and said that those who were involved in “corruption, terror, underground politics and murders” emerged victorious in the civic polls.
Rising on a point of order at the parliament, Moudud Ahmed, a central leader of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) criticised the remarks of both the prime minister and the foreign minister on the victors of the civic elections in five cities of the country. Ahmed said the foreign minister made exactly the same remark as the prime minister almost simultaneously, and by doing so, they both have insulted the 160 million people of Bangladesh. The BNP leader described their remarks as “aspersions on the people of Bangladesh as a whole.”
The opposition lawmaker wanted to know from Speaker Shirmin Chowdhury, who was presiding over the session at that time in the House, if they too would be labeled as “corrupt, dishonest and terrorists” when they would return to parliament as elected representatives of the people.
-With The Independent input
