UNB, Dhaka :
BNP on Thursday urged the government to demonstrate a human attitude by assisting the family members of its leader Salahuddin Ahmed to safely bring him back home from India instead of doing foul politics over his disappearance.
“We’re very happy as Salahuddin Ahmed has been traced after over two months of his disappearance. But, we’re observing that some cruel and inhuman remarks are being made by the ruling party leaders over his disappearance and emergence. It’s very much unfortunate,” said BNP joint secretary general M Shahjahan.
Addressing a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, he further said, “We want to tell the government to take proper steps and extend cooperation to Salahuddin Ahmed’s family to return him to them. We expect a human and passionate attitude from the government instead of cruel comments in this regard.”
Salahuddin,54, who identified himself as a Bangladeshi national, a junior minister in the erstwhile Khaleda Zia-led BNP government and at present “joint secretary” of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was found allegedly “hanging around aimlessly” by some people in Shillong on Monday morning, according to Indian media. Since he had no valid papers, identity proof or
travel permit, he was arrested by Meghalaya police and booked under their Foreigners Act.
A day later, Hasina Ahmed, wife of the BNP leader said her husband phoned her from Meghalaya Institute of Mental Health & Neurological Science (MIMHANS), India at noon.
BNP and Salahuddin’s family members had been claiming that law enforcers picked him up from a house at Uttara on the night of March 10, an allegation denied by the law enforcers and the government.
Shahjahan lamented that the ruling party men are doing dirty politics over Salahuddin’s issue. “He (Salahuddin) was a former state ministers and he is also a joint secretary general of a party like BNP and a popular leader. The politicians are belittling themselves before the country’s people with their indecent remarks about him.”
He urged the ruling party men to refrain from making such remarks. “Please don’t pollute the politics further. We shouldn’t do parochial politics over the issue. It won’t bring anything good for anybody.”
BNP on Thursday urged the government to demonstrate a human attitude by assisting the family members of its leader Salahuddin Ahmed to safely bring him back home from India instead of doing foul politics over his disappearance.
“We’re very happy as Salahuddin Ahmed has been traced after over two months of his disappearance. But, we’re observing that some cruel and inhuman remarks are being made by the ruling party leaders over his disappearance and emergence. It’s very much unfortunate,” said BNP joint secretary general M Shahjahan.
Addressing a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, he further said, “We want to tell the government to take proper steps and extend cooperation to Salahuddin Ahmed’s family to return him to them. We expect a human and passionate attitude from the government instead of cruel comments in this regard.”
Salahuddin,54, who identified himself as a Bangladeshi national, a junior minister in the erstwhile Khaleda Zia-led BNP government and at present “joint secretary” of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was found allegedly “hanging around aimlessly” by some people in Shillong on Monday morning, according to Indian media. Since he had no valid papers, identity proof or
travel permit, he was arrested by Meghalaya police and booked under their Foreigners Act.
A day later, Hasina Ahmed, wife of the BNP leader said her husband phoned her from Meghalaya Institute of Mental Health & Neurological Science (MIMHANS), India at noon.
BNP and Salahuddin’s family members had been claiming that law enforcers picked him up from a house at Uttara on the night of March 10, an allegation denied by the law enforcers and the government.
Shahjahan lamented that the ruling party men are doing dirty politics over Salahuddin’s issue. “He (Salahuddin) was a former state ministers and he is also a joint secretary general of a party like BNP and a popular leader. The politicians are belittling themselves before the country’s people with their indecent remarks about him.”
He urged the ruling party men to refrain from making such remarks. “Please don’t pollute the politics further. We shouldn’t do parochial politics over the issue. It won’t bring anything good for anybody.”
