BANGLADESH NEWS
Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali on Monday sharply criticised ruling alliance lawmakers who slammed noted litterateur Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed for his alleged “derogatory” remarks about treasury bench deputies and ministers.
A section of Awami League-led alliance MPs on Sunday demanded that Sayeed, a trustee board member of Transparency International Bangladesh, offer an unconditional apology in the House for his reported comment.
They claimed that Prof Sayeed on Saturday at a TIB programme termed the deputies and ministers ‘thieves and robbers'.
“But before we asked him, Prof Abu Sayeed made it clear that he did not make such comment. Then why we staged such reactions in parliament when the allegation was unfounded,” Shawkat Ali told reporters after a discussion on budgetary allocation for Haor people at the ministers' hostel at the parliament building.
“It was very much wrong to criticise a person like him whom we all respect. What we practiced in parliament was nothing but futile," he said.
"They [lawmakers] should know what he said actually before talking against him. How could they make such reaction and attack a person like him on the basis of a newspaper report. It was totally improper,” a lamented deputy speaker added.
The retired colonel turned politician said he would have stopped the discussion if he were in the chair at that time.
The deputy speaker finally said the incident was the result of a misunderstanding and "that we all should forget".
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