Independent lawmaker Fazlul Azim in the parliament on Wednesday strongly criticised the home minister, Sahara Khatun, and walked out of the session for a short while in protest at words Sahara used about him.
'If she [Sahara] had made such remarks about me outside the parliament, I would have filed a defamation case against her,' said Azim speaking on a cut motion on the budget for the 2011–2012 financial year.
Sahara in reply to another cut motion placed earlier by Azim on grants demand of the home ministry said that Azim had been involved in crimes and terrorist activities and wounded 400 people during the tenure of the immediate-past BNP-led alliance government which prompted the Azim to walk out of the session.
Azim, who returned to the session after a few minutes to place another cut motion, lodged an objection against the home minister with the speaker, Abdul Hamid, saying that Sahara often used to attack him personally using abusive words.
After he had lodged the objection, the speaker requested the minister not to use abusive words against any lawmaker in the future.
Azim in his cut motion on the home ministry grants said that law and order was deteriorating day by day and accused the home ministry of using the police and the Rapid Action Battalion out of political motives.
During the current session of the parliament on June 13, the home minister also attacked Fazlul Azim terming him a 'grabber of forest resources' and 'killer of others who grab forest resources.'
On that day, the speaker expunged the unparliamentarily words the minister used and said how it could be possible that the same person grabs forest resources and kill others who grab forest resources.
The LGRD and cooperatives minister, Syed Ashraful Islam, criticised the independent lawmaker for his cut motion where he proposed to cut the grants demanded for the ministry to Tk 1 from the proposed Tk 10911.68 crore but demanded allocation of Tk 15 crore for his constituency.
'You [Azim] proposed to cut my grants to Tk 1 only but demanding Tk 15 crore from me. How will I give the money to you?' Ashraf said.
Source : New Age
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