Says the family has always been tortured
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has defended the Osman family saying that her family had a good relationship with Osman family and they would take care of them (Osman family members) whenever necessary.
Shamim Osman’s family was a “victim of propaganda,” said Sheikh Hasina in parliament on Tuesday, recalling the Osman family’s contribution to the Awami League and the country.
While taking part in the condolence reference for Nasim Osman, the late member of parliament of Jatiya Party from Narayangaj 5 constituency and elder brother of Shamim, the premier said all the governments during the Pakistan era and after the 1975 coup carried out attacks on the family.
The Awami League president said she would stand by the Osman family, if necessary.
The prime minister made the comment before the scheduled Narayanganj 5 by-poll on June 26, in which Selim Osman, brother of Nasim and Shamim, is taking part amid the anti-Osman-family mood, as suggested by media reports.
“This family has faced repeated attacks since the Liberation War. Every government that came to power after Bangabandhu’s assassination spearheaded torture and attack on this family,” Hasina told the House before adjourning in honour of Nasim Osman, who died in India on April 30.
The prime minister said the Awami League was born in the house of Osman family, adding that Shamim Osman’s father Shamsuzzoha led a life “with principle.”
“I will take care of this family, if necessary,” Hasina said before wrapping up of the discussion on Nasim Osman’s life, who fled to India leaving his newly-wed wife after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975.
Hinting at the media for their reports on the family, the Awami League chief said: “Propagandas are spread targeting some people. In some cases, a trifle matter is blown up (in media). However, in many other cases, not a single word is written on other people committing serious offences.”
She said the members of Osman family were the few Bangladeshis who went to see Sheikh Hasina while she was in political asylum in India.
Giving an indication on the ongoing country-wide debate over the abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj, the premier said: “Punishment must follow if anyone commits crime. The law will take its own course, but the nation must remain alert about the plots to destroy a family through political conspiracy.”
Claiming there were “conspiracies” against her government, the prime minister said the conspiracy that started at the time of Bangabandhu’s murder was still on.
Shamim Osman gave a long speech on his brother, his family’s contribution to the Awami League and the country, and the tortures on them during different regimes since 1975.
“My brother was a very pious man; he never missed a single prayer in a day. He prayed the entire night. Everybody hires hujurs (religious leaders) to offer Dua Yunus, but he himself recited it,” he said, choking with emotion.
Shamim said he had often raised concerns about Sheikh Hasina ahead of the January 5 polls to Nasim Osman, who said: “Do not worry, nothing will happen to Sheikh Hasina. She has reached the level of Aulia (saint).”
He also said his family was a victim of a group with the help of a section of Awami League and said: “During the past one and a half years, we have been subjected to mental torture.”
He pointed finger at a Bangla newspaper for slandering his family and said he had no knowledge about any political development between April 29 and May 6 due to his brother’s death on April 30.
But some people implicated him and his dead brother in negative publicity. “The family members cannot tolerate this mental torture,” he said.
“I may be killed tomorrow,” Shamim said. “I have survived the bomb attack. I do not know whether I will have a natural or unnatural death. Bullets are flying around, I do not know whose bullets will kill me. If I am killed, I beg pardon in advance; please forgive me.”
Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Telecom Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, State Minister for Local Government Moshiur Rahman Ranga, Jatiya Party’s ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader and Kazi Feroz Rashid also spoke about Nasim Osman’s life.
Following the parliamentary convention, the House was adjourned after the adoption of the condolence motion on Nasim Osman and other renowned citizens of the country.
Earlier, the House started its inaugural sitting with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair around 5:05pm. At 4pm, the Business Advisory Committee had its meeting and decided to run the session until July 3.
According to the meeting, the proposed budget for the 2014-15 fiscal will be passed on July 29.
The House will resume at 5pm today.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
PM laments Dr Kamal’s stance over unopposed election
Prime Minister Hasina on Monday lamented the stance of Dr Kamal Hossain over the uncontested election of some MPs in the last election though he himself was elected unopposed in 1970 and 1973. Without mentioning anybody’s name, Hasina said one leader who was in Awami League is now very much vocal against the uncontested election.“That leader was also elected in by-elections in 1970 and 1973. Those seats fell vacant as Bangabandhu had vacated those at that time,” she said.Hasina said this in her introductory speech at a joint meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee, Advisory Council and AL Parliamentary Party at her official residence Ganobhaban. “He himself was elected uncontested, but now he is very much vocal against the unopposed election of MPs in the last election,” she said. Hasina also urged journalists to investigate more into the issue, prompting Liberation War Affairs AKM Mozammel Haque and Law Minister Anisul Huq to say that leader was elected unopposed.Law Minister Anisul Huq then stood up and said that leader contested the by-elections in that seats which were vacated by Bangabandhu. Prime Minister Hasina questioned the leader who had become MP uncontested how could he now raise his voice against the same issue?Talking about the last election where more than 150 MPs were elected uncontested, she said that it was not the fault of her party.
“Jamaat couldn’t contest he election, BNP didn’t come as Jamaat was unable to contest. What can we do then? There was no candidate except Awami League,” Hasina said. She also mentioned that it was a politically wrong decision of BNP to boycott the election.The Prime Minister said BNP and Jamaat had tried their best to foil the January-5 election, but failed.“They had tried to put the country on the verge of destruction. They tried whatever needed for that, but failed as people and law enforcing agencies were against that. Law enforcing agencies were with the people of the country,” she said. Source- http://www.bdchronicle.com.DHAKA:02.06.2014 ================
Dr Zeebun Nisa Nuri writes from Dhaka: ABOUT HASINA’S HALLUCINATION:
SHE SMELLS RAT EVERYWHERE; SHE BELIEVES EVERYONE WANTS TO KILL HER LIKE “THEY KILLED MY FATHER, MY MOTHER, MY BROTHERS, AND THEIR WIVES”. TODAY SHE IS THE MOST INSECURE & SCARED PERSON IN BANGLADESH
A very nervous and agitated, impulsive, Hasina is so frightened of her life that these days she smells rats everywhere even she insults her father’s best friends if they do not support her destructive divisive policies. She has almost destroyed the entire structure of country’s civil administration by appointing her native Gopalies, in top posts just for political reason. Some of her political appointee judges could not write down verdicts in English Language as ordered by Hasina so they hire outsiders to do the job for them at taxpayers’ expense! How on earth these people, the semi-literate, sycophants, appointed on political consideration, inexperienced as they are can run an administration as huge, as complex, and as corrupt as Bangladeshi one? Even her Law minister fighting his own Deputy. One Government prosecutor accusing and insulting the fellow prosecutors in front of everyone, including the media. One angry judge arguing in loud voice with another fellow judge! The whole administration is in total disarray. One ministry does not co-operate /co-ordinate with other. Civil servants do not listen to the untrained, poorly educated, inexperienced political appointee ministers. Various “PARLIAMENTARY” Committees passing law/rules/directives almost every week but the civil administration not implementing them. Angrily Hasina is barking at everyone, even a mild critic of her dictatorial policy is not spared. She has been insulting people in her native Gopali obscene language as if suffering from hallucination because of her feeling of inferiority complex due to her guilty conscious as she has committed many crimes against humanity. Most of the time she is in bad mood, looks abnormal and agitated because she knows her illegal government has failed and she has plunged the nation into an unending, self-destructive civil war. “By committing judicial murder of Jamaat leader Qadir Mullah, an innocent political rival to settle old score and deleting the benign sentence regarding ALLAH from the constitution to curry Indian favour she has signed her own (political) death warrant. Cunning & wicked Hasina is abusive, foul mouth, & indeed a very insulting person but not a fool.কথায় বলে, ‘‘চোরের মা্য়ের বড় গলা‘’,said one Dhaka university teacher on condition of anonymity.
bravo. valid comments.