Judicial process as transparent as Buriganga: BNP

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP on Wednesday said that Bangladesh’s judicial process is transparent like the water of the Buriganga river now.

BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday came up with the remark while addressing a press briefing in the party’s Nayapaltan office in the capital.

Water of the river Buriganga is usually considered heavily polluted, dirty and harmful as the huge waste from the mill factories and households of Dhaka are pouring into the river unabatedly.

Pointing to the cases against Dr Yunus on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud said, “The country’s judiciary highly is independent. It is transparent. Employees and workers lodged the case against Dr Yunus.”

Referring to the remarks of foreign minister about Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, Rizvi said, “Certainly, the judicial process in Bangladesh is transparent, but it’s like the water of the river Buriganga.”

Citing the case against Shajahan Omar MP, Rizvi said the cases in which Shajahan Omar gets bail, many BNP leaders and workers including the party’s secretary general are not given bail in those cases.

“Though they (dozens of BNP leaders and workers) are not given bail, one Shahjahan Omar was given bail in the same case after he sold out himself to Awami League. The agriculture minister’s comments now appear to be true. Will Obaidul Quader call Abdur Razzaque as an agent like the TIB?”

Criticising the government, the BNP leader said the government is sucking money from people. “Just after beginning of the first session of Jatiya Sangsad of the one-party led dummy government, it has been learnt that the pre-paid meter’s rent for domestic customers has been raised from Tk 100 to Tk 200.

The government said the rent was raised to make adjustment between meter operation cost and maintenance cost. In fact, the meter rent has been doubled to punish people for witnessing the January 7 election as a circus instead of going to the polling centres.”

He further said the gas supply situation to the domestic level has deteriorated seriously. Most of the time, gas doesn’t exist at domestic level. But, the illegal government is sucking gas using customers various ways. Instead of ensuring the gas supply, the government has doubled the meter rent mounting the sufferings of common people, Rizvi added.

Mentioning the Transparency International report, Rizvi said the Berlin-based anti-graft watchdog has mentioned that Bangladesh is ranked 10th from the bottom.
“TI said that Bangladesh’s low ranking essentially means that Bangladesh has performed badly.”