Feed rotten wheat to AL men, Khaleda asks govt

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday advised the government to feed the imported ‘rotten’ wheat to ruling Awami League men, not to common people. The BNP chairperson made the remarks when briefly addressing an iftar party hosted by a faction Jatiya Party, component of the BNP-led alliance, at international convention city, Basundhara in the capital. She said nobody wanted to eat the rotten wheat adding that the army and the police had refused to take that wheat. The Awami League men would be ‘healthier’ if they ate the rotten wheat, Khaleda quipped. The BNP chairperson come down hard on the government for awarding contracts of large construction projects without tender to ‘share commission’ among themselves. She referred to corruption committed in the share market, Hall-mark, Destiny, Bismillah Group, banks, quick rental power plant and Padma bridge project. The BNP chairperson urged leaders of the political parties who attended the iftar party to see whether ‘we can assemble peacefully in the future as we have assembled today in the iftar party to remove the sufferings of the people’. She urged the political parties to sit together to get united without judging who was small or big to work together to rid the people of the prevailing situation. JP a faction chairman Kazi Zafar Ahmad also briefly spoke at the iftar party. Islami Oikya Jote chairman Abdul Latif Nezami, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Redwanullah Shahedi, JAGPA president Shafiul Alam Prodhan, Kalyan Party chairman Syed M Ibrahim, Labour Party chairman Mustafizur Rahman Iran and National People’s Party faction chairman Fariduzzaman Farhad, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal faction president ASM Abdur Rab and joint secretary of Krishak Sramik Janata League Iqbal Siddiqui attended the iftar party. Ganoshasthya Kendra founder Zafrullah Choudhury, economist Mahbub Ullah, daily Inqilab editor AMM Bahauddin and senior journalist Mahfuz Ullah, among others, also joined the iftar party. News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net