BNP walked out of Parliament

Nazma Akhter MP’s comment came a day after Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury issued a ‘tough warning’ against using ‘un-parliamentary’ language.
Speaking on the proposed budget, Akhter claimed: “Laxmi Rani Marma is the opposition leader’s mother… Her father, too, had a surname of Marma.”
She continued ignoring the Speaker’s call to speak on the budget and claimed to have gleaned the information from a book.
Khaleda is the daughter of Tayeba Majumder and Eskander Majumder.

Irked at the ruling MP’s remark, the opposition showed their back to the proceedings at around 9:30pm before returning 15 minutes later.
Parliament has been rocked by personal attacks in recent weeks.
Last week, both the opposition and the ruling party assured the Speaker that they would not use offensive remarks. However, such assurances seem to

have had little effect.

Bangladesh Jatiya Party’s Andaleeve Rahman Partho first stirred Monday’s session by attacking Awami League’s Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta, and Syed Abul Hossain.

Last week, BNP’s Syeda Ashifa Ashrafi Papia MP, known for her rhetoric, had claimed Prime Minister’s daughter-in-law was a Jew.

Papiya’s remark had prompted Nazma Akhter to attack the BNP chief over her family lineage.

Akhter flayed Andaleeve’s remark that the government was getting ‘scared’ of BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman’s speech.

Tarique made his first appearance at a public meeting in nearly five years in London last month where he urged the expatriates to mount pressure on the government to reinstate the caretaker government provision.

In response to Andaleeve’s remark, Nazma Akhter said: “We are certainly afraid of him (Tarique). [Because] we’ll have grenade attacks like the one on Aug 21, women will be dishonoured at the Khowab (Hawa) Bhaban, militant attacks will take place, if he returns.”

She alleged Tarique, under the influence of liquor, had tried to rape the wife of an actor on a plane.