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JS body gets tough on absentee housing secretary

SHAKHAWAT LITON
A parliamentary standing committee yesterday suspended a meeting an hour after its start without discussing the agenda because of two officials' absence.
The House Committee resented the absence of Housing and Public Works Secretary Aminur Rahman and Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD) Abul Kasem Chowdhury and decided to serve show-cause notices on the two.
The committee was scheduled to discuss the handover of Nonaligned Movement flats to the parliament secretariat, as the building blocks constructed for the NAM
summit will be allocated to lawmakers.
The secretary and the engineer drew flak from the committee chairman and members alike and will be asked to attend the meeting, now slated for August 11, said meeting sources.
A debate raged over the absence issue between lawmakers of the ruling and opposition parties at the meeting that began at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with Chief Whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain in the chair.
The opposition lawmakers termed it a failure of the government to ensure officials attend the parliamentary committee meeting, but the ruling party denied the allegation.
Tajul Islam Chowdhury, Jatiya Party (Ershad) lawmaker and House Committee member, demanded summoning of the two officials to the committee.
Opposition Chief Whip Abdus Shahid said the absence of the officials despite their invitation to the meeting shows the government's 'failure'.
The ruling BNP whip, Syed Shahidul Haq Jamal, said, "We may have weakness, but we did not fail."
The Awami League lawmaker, Shajahan Khan, quipped that weakness cannot bring success. "If the government is weak, how can it be successful?" asked Shajahan.
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Fazlul Haq Aspia, another BNP whip, said there is a difference between the government and parliament. "It may be the parliamentary committee's failure, but not government's."
Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Shajahan Chowdhury criticised the past AL government for what he called a failure in running the state.