BANGLADESH NEWS
Slating the premier for her continued World Bank bashing, BNP leader Moudud Ahmed on Sunday doubted her intention of building the Padma bridge.
“Confusion has been created in public mind whether the prime minister at all wants to build the Padma bridge as she is trying to foil the finance minister’s efforts to revive the loan deal by making remarks against the World Bank,” he said.
Moudud came up with the observation at a discussion titled ‘Government’s Intolerant Politics, Unbridled Corruption and Duties of Patriots’ organised by Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Dal at the National Press Club in the capital.
He said, "It is difficult to understand what the prime minister actually wants. On the one hand, the finance minister is trying to woo the World Bank and the premier is calling Abul Hossain a patriot on the other.”
Talking to reporters on July 25 in London, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina described Syed Abul Hossain, who quit as ICT minister days back, as a man of guts and patriot for his firm stance to step aside.
While responding to a question, she also accused the WB of taking ‘percentage’ from its funded projects.
Reacting to the PM’s remarks, Moudud, a BNP standing committee member, said, it seems that the PM does not want to resolve the problem with the WB. Instead, she prefers the conflict to continue. “The people of the country want to know what she actually wants.”
He said the government apparently confessed to indulging in corruption in the Padma bridge project after taking action against Abul.
”There’s no doubt that the entire government is involved in the bridge project graft,” Moudud said adding that he has heard that the relatives of the Prime Ministers are returning to the country from Canada fearing that the authorities there may take action against them.
He also demanded an explanation from the Prime Minister’s office in this regard.
Rejecting the PM’s remarks on the next general election, the senior BNP leader said there is no democratic country in the world where general election is held without dissolving Parliament.
Hasina, now in London on a five-day official visit, on Friday said her government is making relentless efforts to keep the country’s electoral process completely neutral and free from government interference in continuation of the free and fair election held in 2008.
The premier made the remarks when Leader of the Opposition of UK Labour Party Edward Samuel Miliband met her in her hotel suite.
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