BANGLADESH NEWS
Minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday to relinquish her parliamentary post for not joining parliament sessions.
“Moudud Ahmed, you along with your party chief should set an example by stepping down from the posts you hold in the parliament,” remarked Suranjit.
He was replying to BNP leader Moudud Ahmed who on June 1 asked Home Minister Shahara Khatun to resign for failing to discharge her duty properly.
“Police went beyond their limits. The home minister has also regretted the recent incidents of police assault on journalists and still they want her to step down,” said Suranjit who has recently come back to the media after a weeks-long break.
The veteran parliamentarian stepped aside as railways minister following a financial scandal in April and became silent from the media for several weeks. He was later appointed a minister without portfolio.
Like the government, the opposition is also accountable to the people for their actions, so Khaleda should come forward taking all the responsibilities for not performing her duties as the leader of the opposition in the parliament as well, he added.
Suranjit Sengupta, a senior leader of the ruling party, was speaking at a discussion on ‘Educationist Prof Razia Matin’s contribution in materialising the ideology of Bangabandhu’ organised by Bangamata Parishad at the city’s Central Public Library seminar hall.
In a democracy, law enforcers and the media are also accountable likewise the government and the opposition, he also said.
“This couple was among those who dared to face danger in their effort to uphold the truth,” said Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique, vice chancellor of Dhaka University.
Prof Razia Matin and Prof Matin were the very first people who protested the killings and demanded trial of the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members immediately after their brutal murder in 1975, he said.
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