Kushtia:Reserved-seat MP from the National Citizen Party (NCP), Nusrat Tabassum, has expressed her anger over Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed's remarks about a fire incident at her village home in Kushtia. She questioned why the minister attempted to downplay the severity of the incident.
According to United News of Bangladesh, Nusrat raised her concerns following the home minister's response to a query from Opposition Chief Whip and NCP Convener Nahid Islam in Parliament. Salahuddin Ahmed stated that an investigation was underway to ascertain the cause of the fire and mentioned that no evidence of a petrol bomb explosion had been found. He suggested that an electrical short circuit was the likely cause due to the old wiring in the unoccupied house.
Reacting to these statements, Nusrat criticized Salahuddin for labeling her residential house, inhabited by six to seven people including children, as abandoned during his parliamentary address. She rejected the short circuit theory, arguing that the site was filled with the smell of burnt petrol. Nusrat also expressed her belief that supporters of the Awami League, whose activities are banned, were responsible for the attack, and she questioned the home minister's attempts to downplay the incident.
Nusrat concluded her remarks by comparing the situation to other locations, questioning if they too would be considered abandoned, as her house was. The fire destroyed five of the eight rooms in her tin-shed house at Bogoan in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia, with her family alleging the fire was caused by petrol bombs.