Gonoforum MP Mukabbir Khan on Sunday claimed that present Awami League deviated from the ideological path of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
He made the comment in Parliament taking part in the thanksgiving motion on President’s speech.
“The current Awami League does not have Bangabandhu's principles and ideals,” he said.
He said that many of the current and former parliamentarians, bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians of this parliament have “looted money” and built Begumpara, second home, third home in different countries including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Dubai, Malaysia and Singapore.
“If you talk about this second home, you will see that snakes are coming out to collect earthworms. Then the Prime Minister might end up in an embarrassing situation, so I won't go there.”
Mokabbir challenged and said that those who claim to be belonging to the spirit of liberation war cannot go back to the constitution of 1972 ideals of Bangabandhu.
“1/11 has taught Awami League that if there is a hard time, many of the beneficiaries will not be found.”
Acknowledging the current government's development activities, he said that due to the post-Covid situation, the Russia-Ukraine war, money laundering, government mismanagement in some places, widespread looting in the banking and financial sectors, commodity prices are beyond the reach of common people today.
“When you go to the market, it does not seem to be any government in the country. There is no justice for those who are involved in looting indiscriminately.”
Saying that the middle class and lower middle class are in the worst condition, the Gonoforum MP said that the standard of living of many is going down, and many are going below the poverty line.
The government has given fair price cards to one crore low income group people. There is serious mismanagement and corruption in here. Some 80 percent of these cards are given to party leaders and workers, there is abundant evidence, he said. Even multiple cards are given to the same family, he said adding that poor people are not getting any benefits.
Mukabbir said that dishonest syndicates are once again active before Ramadan.
He said that A few days ago, gas and electricity prices were increased.
“Corrupt, unscrupulous syndicates always prey on people's sufferings. I would request the Prime Minister, make a tribunal to bring all these top corrupts, looters to book and give maximum sentence to some of the top looters.”
He said that corruption will reduce a lot this way.
“Hope, you will consider the issue taking common people's sufferings in mind.”
Source: United News of Bangladesh