Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said from now on, BNP will not be ashamed to chant ‘Joy Bangla’ as the High Court (HC) has declared it as the national slogan of the country.
“From now on, BNP won’t be ashamed to chant ‘Joy Bangla’ slogan,” Dr Hasan, also the ruling Awami League joint general secretary, told a press briefing at the conference room of the Information Ministry at Bangladesh Secretariat here this afternoon.
Referring to the HC verdict on “Joy Bangla” slogan, he said, “We welcome the verdict declaring ‘Joy Bangla’ as our national slogan… I hope BNP and some other quarters who felt shy to chant ‘Joy Bangla’ slogan’ will not do so any more.”The information minister added: “Joy Bangla’ is not a slogan of any particular party, it is the slogan of Liberation War. And we have to chant this slogan everywhere showing due respect to the country’s independence.”
About BNP’s politics on coronavirus issue, the AL joint general secretary said the coronavirus issue is not merely the problem of Bangladesh; it has become a global catastrophe.
“BNP has started doing politics with the novel Coronavirus, they should stand by the people without doing politics with it,” Hasan Mahmud told the briefing.
Mentioning the worldwide setback due to the Coronavirus outbreak, he said the aircrafts are now operating on a limited scale due to the contagious Corona and the world leaders, including US President Doland Trump, curtailed their respective trips.
Hasan alleged that BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam started looking for political agenda on it, but his politics over coronavirus issue is tantamount to doing mockery with mass people.
“BNP always thinks of their party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s health condition. But if you (BNP) do politics for people, you should not do politics with Coronavirus,” Hasan said.
About the appeal of BNP for releasing their chief, he said BNP’s politics now remained confined in the health ground of Begum Zia only. Relatives of BNP chairperson only think of Begum Zia’s health and they never think of others at all, Dr Mahmud observed.
