Railways minister should quit: BNP
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the railways minister should resign as he could not deny the responsibility of the recovery of huge money from his assistant personal secretary (APS).
“You should resign on moral grounds because you will have to take the responsibility of the incident”, he said.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Monday night seized Tk 70 lakh of "bribe money" from the car of Omar Faruq Talukder, APS of Railways Minister Suranjit Sengupta.
Addressing a protest programme, Fakhrul said the government should also resign taking the responsibility of widespread corruption. If the minister cannot give proper explanation for the corruption, the prime minister should quit shouldering the responsibility, he said.
Dhaka city unit of BNP-led four-party alliance and other like-minded political parties organised the demonstration in front of BNP central office at Naya Paltan in the capital as part of the countrywide agitation in protest of price spiral of electricity, gas and fuels, and demanding immediate supply of safe drinking water.
The BNP leader also asked the government to accept the opposition's key demand of restoration of caretaker government system within BNP's June 10 deadline.
Fakhrul said there was wide-scale corruption behind increasing the electricity tariff.
Permanent power plants are necessary to meet the demand of electricity, but without doing that the government went for installation of quick rental power plants, he said.
The BNP leader announced another countrywide demonstration on April 25 to protest increasing prices of agricultural inputs and denial of fair prices to farmers for their produces.
Chaired by convenor of Dhaka city four-party alliance Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the protest rally was addressed, among others, by other alliance leaders.
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