Workers Party general sec retary Rashed Khan Menon yesterday blamed the big political parties for "commercialising education and politics, reports UNB.

He apprehended that the commercialised politics would turn the parliament into a club of moneyed businessmen. corrupt men. miscreants and civil-military bureaucrats.

Speaking at a meeting with school, college and madrassah teachers at Saheed Suhrawardi College at Munshir Taluk of Uzirpur thana in Barisal district. Menon regretted that honest, meritorious and committed politicians could not survive in the current trend of politics.

The WP leader called for nationalising the country’s education system by introducing uniform education for all. The existing system is only widening discrepancy in the society, he said.

He criticised the past governments for commercialising the education system depriving the poor of their educational rights.