Staff Reporter :
The government cannot avoid the responsibility of the Foreign Minister’s recent statement which also questioned the sovereignty of the country.
Besides, such a statement has made even the neighboring country India uncomfortable.
Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman and Deputy Leader of Opposition in Parliament GM Quader said this, while exchanging greetings with the leaders and prominent citizens of Sanatan religious community on the occasion of auspicious Janmashtami at the city’s Banani JaPa office on Saturday.
According to GM Quader, “Not only minorities are leaving the country today, Muslims are also leaving the country due to social, economic and political discrimination. Honest people are not getting jobs nowadays. Lakhs of crores of taka are being smuggled out of the country through corruption. Corruption is rampant in every sector due to lack of accountability. Lakhs of crores of taka are now being smuggled out of the country every year through corruption, GM Quader said adding that corruption is rampant in every sector due to lack of accountability.
“If anyone criticizes corruption, the government considers them conspiratorial and anti-state. If a country to run properly, they should have to listen to criticism and ensure accountability,” the JaPa Chairman said.
He said that when the issue of extrajudicial killings is raised, the government dismisses it as ridiculous. “As a result, we are known as liar state to the whole world. The electoral system of the country is broken. People will elect representatives by exercising their voting rights in elections,” GM Quader said.
If the rights of common people and accountability is not ensured, it will never be possible to prevent corruption, he added.
The government has to pay 80 to 90 thousand crores of debt interest this year and the country will have to pay principal with interest in 2 or 1 year, JaPa Chairman said.
“The country may fall into economic disaster when it started to pay foreign loans. Experts fear that the country may go bankrupt like Sri Lanka,” he said.
Earlier on Thursday, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said that he urged the Indian government to back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina so that she can stay in power.
