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Budget won't work unless crimes curbed: AL

Stop hartal for uplift: Treasury bench

Staff Correspondent
Senior ministers yesterday came down heavily on the main opposition Awami League (AL) in parliament accusing it of hindering development programmes through hartal and street agitation.
Refuting the accusation, AL lawmakers blamed the government for what they said was patronising criminals that led to a law and order downslide.
Taking part in the budget discussion in the House, Minister for Communications Nazmul Huda
demanded amendment to the constitution to ban hartal and street agitation for at least four years of a government's five-year tenure to allow uninterrupted development work.
AL adviser and former finance minister SAMS Kibria said law and order is deteriorating as the ruling alliance backs criminals and that this has led to a poor economic situation in the country.
"The budget will not bring any positive change in the socioeconomic condition of people if law and order does not improve", said
Kibria.
He said investigations into crimes are stalled whenever the authorities find ruling alliance loyalists are involved in them.
Explaining this, Kibria said alliance men are involved in the huge arms hauls in Chittagong, Bogra and at Kuril in Dhaka, killing of AL lawmaker Ahsanullah Master at Tongi and two policemen at Motijheel.
On the price hike of essentials, the former finance minister asked the government to apologise to people for failure to check it.
Earlier in the morning sitting of the House, Nazmul Huda said, "The opposition is engaging in various destructive activities and putting the blame on the government to destroy its image."
Huda brushed aside opposition lawmakers' allegation that he had kicked on the door of the chief justice's chamber during the previous AL rule and said if anyone can prove it, he will no more come to the House.
Shipping Minister Akbar Hossain blamed criminal activities on the prevailing political culture. If a party wants to set fire to vehicles to enforce hartal, it hires criminals to do the job. Its opponent party naturally hires criminals to counter that, he said.
About education system, the shipping minister said Madrassah education needs radical reforms.
In the afternoon sitting, he however said, " I think there may be misunderstanding about my earlier statement. Religious education should be allowed up to class eight."
BNP lawmaker and Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) Mizanur Rahman Minu rejected the alleged existence of dreaded vigilante commander Bangla Bhai in his region and accused the AL of fabricating stories about the 'imaginary entity'.
"No-one named Bangla Bhai is in our region," he claimed.
The RCC mayor, one of the alleged patrons of Bangla Bhai, said AL men killed many people in the region and put the blame on outlaws to hide the fact. When people started to resist them unitedly, AL started blaming a non-existent Bangla Bhai for the killings.
Opposition Chief Whip Abdus Shahid said the proposed budget is a document of failure of this government.
Lack of good governance has created a chaotic situation in the country, Shahid said. "The country has turned into a police-run state as the political government has failed absolutely."
Jatiya Party (Ershad) lawmaker Rawshan Ershad said lack of mutual understanding between the ruling and the opposition parties is retarding development work.
Other lawmakers who took part in the budget discussion included Shahjahan Omar and KM Obaidur Rahman of the BNP, AL's Asaduzzaman Noor and Hamida Banu Shova and Jatiya Party's Golam Habib Dulal.