BNP trying to politicise incidents of repression on women: Hasan
Decreasing heavily on BNP's attempts to provide political form to the recent heinous crimes of women repression, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has reiterated the government's determination to ensure exemplary punishment to culprits, regretting that the BNP has gone out to politicize those incidents.
"It's not right to do politics over the incidents of women repression. The rapists don’t belong to any party. The culprits, who were involved in the incident of Noakhali, all are miscreants," he told newsmen after a meeting with the leaders of Broadcast Journalists Center (BJC) at the meeting room of his ministry at Secretariat in Dhaka, reports BSS.
Hasan said the federal government considers the culprits as miscreants. "Every such incident has been brought under trial and the federal government is determined to make sure exemplary punishment to the miscreants," he added.
BJC president Rezwanul Haque Raza, general secretary Shakil Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaq Reza, Rashed Ahmed, ManashGhose, Mamunur Rahman Khan, Dip Azad and Harun Talukder, amongst others, were present at the meeting.
He said the BNP-men raped ladies in Bangladesh beneath the party shelter. "An eight-year-old baby was raped following the 2001 elections. They (BNP) repressed and raped hundreds of women after blocking a village for voting for Awami League. But, they didn’t hold trials of rape incidents. So, the party that didn’t take any steps against those incidents, doesn't have ethical right to talk on this issue," he added.
Criticising a comment of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the info minister urged the BNP leader to read different economic indexes carefully. "I would like to urge him to kindly read those indexes attentively," he added.
He said many had expressed their apprehensions of experiencing a sorry state of economy, life and livelihood when general leave was declared in the united states and everything got stuck as a result of Coronavirus. Many predicted that the united states would face an awful situation with regards to life and livelihood, said Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary.
But, he said, it didn't happen in Bangladesh by the grace of Almighty and the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and apprehensions of most including specialists have gone wrong.Income from export between July and September this year is 9.9 billion US dollar that was 2.58 percent more from the same period of the this past year, he added.
The info minister said remittance is $6.71 billion between July and September this season which is 48.5 percent more from the this past year. Besides, he said, many told that thousands of expatriates would return from abroad.
But, now the expatriates are going abroad with valid documents, he said.
Besides, Hasan said, the earnings income has increased by 0.16 percent through the prevailing COVID-19 situation from July to August. The forex reserve was 39.31 billion US dollar till September 30 which is approximately eight billion US dollar more from the same period of the this past year, he said.
According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the information minister said the economical growth of Bangladesh is above 5.2 percent, which is 1.8 in China and the rate is minus in almost all of the Asian countries. This has been only possible for the dynamic leadership and pragmatic steps of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and for giving financial incentives, he added.
Initially, Hasan praised the journalists for their courageous role through the COVID-19 situation and prayed for early recovery of the journalists who are infected with the virus.
The info minister also prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of those who died as a result of virus.
He said there have been no leave for the journalists when general leave was declared in the united states due to COVID-19 situation. “I’ve also worked with you. The Premier took steps for giving special supports to the journalists considering theircondition,” he added.
He said regulations ministry gave vetting to the proposed media employees’ law.
About Bangladeshi TV channels, the info minister said anyone in the country can begin a pay-channel and there is absolutely no bar to do that. IT channel authorities will decide if indeed they would go for starting pay channel or not, he said.
"We are going for making digitalization of cable operating-system," said Hasan.
The info minister urged all to keep health codes. The government is wanting to bring vaccine of COVID-19, he added.
