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Lawmaker or lawbreaker?

Our Correspondent, Mymensingh
Supporters of State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mozibur Rahman Fakir entered a village home in Gouripur upazila on Friday afternoon and filmed a septuagenarian woman for not hanging the photos of Bangabandhu and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the wall.
Waiting outside in a car with a police escort, the state minister hurled abuse at the woman's son Ekram Hossain, convener of the Sachetan Nagorik Samaj (SNS), a citizens' body in Gouripur, complained Ekram.
Communications manager at the Institute of Governance Studies at Brae University, Ekram was not at home during the incident.
In a written complaint to The Daily Star, Ekram said local Awami League activist Abdul Munnaf, along with another person, entered the house in Gabhishimul village and filmed his elderly mother.
Sachetan Nagorik Samaj in the last five years has revealed many incidents of corruption in the area, which irked the state minister, also the local lawmaker (Mymensingh-3). The minister's men had obstructed the activities of the SNC on several previous occasions, he added.
For instance, the SNC had protested massive corruption in the 40-day job creation programmes in 10 unions of the upazila in 2010. Many national dailies, including The Daily Star, had run reports on the graft. "Since then, I have become a target for Mr Mozibur," mentioned Ekram.
Contacted, the state minister admitted visiting many houses in the area, includingthatofEkram. "My men founda
photo of Khaleda Zia in his [Ekram's] house, but there were none of Bangabandhu orSheikh Hasina," he said.
Asked whether it was mandatory for every household to display those photos, Mozibur replied, "Had he [Ekram] been our man, he would have displayed those photos in his house.... We need to know our friends and foes."
Enquired by this correspondent about the incident, Abdul Munnaf said he filmed Ekram's home and his elderly mother on the instructions of the state minister.
Ekram's younger brother Shakawat Hossain went to Gouripur Police Station Saturday night to file a general diary
(GD) in connection with the incident. But Sub-inspector Abu Bakar Siddique refused to record the complaint.
OC Hamidul Islam of Gouripur Police Station said, "1 was not present in my office when Ekram’s brother came to the police station for filing the GD. But as the complaint is against a minister, we have to investigate it and proceed on accordingly."
Condemning the incident, Gouripur upazila parishad chairman and upazila unit AL labour secretary Ali Ahmed Khan Pathan Silvi said it was an act of human rights violation and nobody has the right to harass another person.