State minister for environment Hasan Mahmud on Sunday criticised in strong terms economist Anu Muhammad of the National Committee for Safeguarding oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports for calling hartal opposing the production sharing contract the government signed with ConocoPhillips, a US company.
Digressing from budget discussion in parliament, the state minister took on the economist calling him 'Monu Mohammad.'
The minister called the committee 'foreign agent and spy' which wanted to stay in the limelight by making an issue out of the contract the government signed with Conoco.
'What is the Oil Gas Committee? It was formed by some Tokais (street urchins),' he said.
He said that these people were just trying to make an issue out of the contract to remain in the limelight.
The state minister mentioned Anu's name as 'Monu Mohammad' three times and said that the professor of economics had no right to speak on oil gas as he had no knowledge of mineral resources.
'They are just like those who want to be in the limelight even by urinating on others' head,' said Hasan Mahmud.
He asked he did not understand why Anu speaks about oil and gas though he is not a professor of mineral resources.
He said that the people would reject the 'so called committee' for calling hartal against the contract.
The minister was angered by the hartal called by the oil and gas committee in Dhaka city for July 3 in opposing the production sharing contract calling it contrary to national interest.
Anu Muhammad recently announced the hartal at a news conference.
The oil and gas committee considers the contract as one-sided designed to benefit the US company, not Bangladesh.
Source : New Age
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