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Uproar in JS over funds for mosques

By Staff Correspondent
The Jatiya Sangsad witnessed a pandemottium yesterday when most of the ruling party MPs including the Deputy Leader of the House castigated the religious affairs minister for discrimination in allocating funds for mosques across the country.
Mohammad Keramat Ali looked perturbed as he tried to reply a barrage of accusations from his angry partymen who booed and jeered.
Deputy Speaker Humayun Khan Panni who was in the chair tried to cool down the lawmakers some of whom were heard chanting "Shame, shame ... thief, thief."
Deputy Leader of the House Prof Badruddoza Chowdhury even proposed that the Chair order an inquiry into the alleged irregu-lai it u s Jn.it the Chain did not .iCcent the proposal.
The 20-ininute pandemonium ended when ruling party Chief Whip Kharidaker Del-war Hossain proposed that the Deputy Leader of the House would discuss the mat-. ter with the Prime Minister.
It had all started when Keramat Ali failed to give satisfactory reply to M Akbar Ali who. in a supplementary during the question-answer period, asked the minister to explain allocation of 'excess' funds to mosques in Patu-akhali, the minister's home district.
In his repeated attempts to justify the fund distribution, a visibly nervous Keramat Ali told the angry Ml’s that the hinds were given as per rules. Each thana got Tk 50,000 and additional funds were approved under special arrangements following appli cations by the MPs concerned, he added. The minister's explanation was rejected outright hy the enraged lawmakers.
The lawmakers became an gry when Keramat Ali placed the thanawisc allocation of government funds for mosques which showed that Patuakhah Sadar under re ceived Taka 8.4 lakh while 50 thanas go no allocation Be
sides, 10 thanas under Rangamati district and another 8 in Khagrachhari dis trict did not get any allocation, as per the list
Other thanas of Patuakhali, got funds ranging from Tk 1.17 lakh to 338 lakh and mosques in the capital got the highest allocation—Tk 11.76 lakh. Mithamoin thana in Kishorcganj, Shingair in Manikganj, Kamarknand in Siraiganj, Khoksha of Kushtia and Bancharampur of Btah manbaria got Tk 2,000 each Keramat Ah tried to explain but dozens of MPs stood up and joined in a chorus of hurling blemishes at him "Most
people seem to dissent with your reply... Can you clarify,
Deputy Speaker requested the minister.
As the bureaucrat-turned minister came up with the same explanation, the Deputy Speaker said, "I think this an swer is not acceptable to the honourable members... Pls, give if you have a logical an swer.”
At one stage, Shipping Minister M K Anwar, also a retired bureaucrat, tried to help his Cabinet colleague, but the Chair refrained him, to allow Keramat to give an appropriate reply.