Khaleda ZiaThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
, returned to parliament yesterday, a day after they had walked out of the House protesting an unofficial ban on rallies and meetings in the capital.
Makes sense. You can't walk out without being in.
They participated in all proceedings, including the question-answer session, breathing life into parliament yesterday.
No politicians from the treasury or the opposition bench used any abusive words against each other.
However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
speaking on a point of order, BNP politician Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee blasted the government for arresting acting editor of Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman, closure of the newspaper and shutdown of Digonto and Islamic Television.
In reply, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said Amar Desh was responsible for instigating violence across the country by publishing false news and photographs. He, however, said the newspaper could be published from any printing press other than the Amar Desh press.
He said the two TV channels were shut down temporarily for broadcasting false news on Hefajat-e Islam's May 5 rally in Dhaka.
Interestingly, there was no pandemonium in parliament this time over the issues.
Speaking on a point of order, senior BNP politician Jamiruddin Sircar said the recent arrest of Abdul Jalal Khandaker, a BNP-backed candidate who was elected chairman of Talura municipality in Bogra on May 8, had made uncertain his oath-taking by the June 8 deadline.
Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
said she would take the initiative to make sure that the chairman-elect could take the oath ofoffice within the stipulated time.