The Parliament Secretariat has asked telecom regulators BTRC to stop url ‘chudurbudur.com’ that redirects visitors to Parliament’s official website.
The move came after news reports on Tuesday about such a domain name taking surfers to the official site http://parliament.gov.bd.
The domain name has been launched amid the widespread discussion in and outside Parliament over the use of the Bengali word ‘Chudurbudur’ by an opposition MP recently.
On Jun 9, BNP MP Rahana Akter Ranu had warned the government using her local language that “there was no scope for chudurbudur” – dillydally – with opposition’s caretaker government demand.
Ruling coalition MPs had objected to Ranu’s choice of word. Whip ASM Firoz termed her speech ‘indecent’ and demanded it be expunged.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury had said the remarks would be examined and a decision to whether exclude it or not would be taken as per Section 307.
Days after “Chudurbudur” stirred Parliament, India’s largest circulating Bengali language daily Ananda Bazar Patrika turned to linguists to explore whether the word was indeed obscene, abusive and un-parliamentary.
A report by the daily citing the Bangla Academy Dictionary edited by linguist Dr Muhammad Shahidullah and quoting Kolkata’s top linguist Pabitra Sarkar, a former Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University who works closely with the Bangla Academy, said ‘chudurbudur’ was a rural word and not obscene.
The Speaker, who hails from Noakhali where the word is widely used, told bdnews24.com on Monday that it was not an obscene word.
The Speaker told Parliament on Monday that the Bengali word ‘Chudurbudur’ would not be deleted from the records.
Contacted for comment on the issue of ‘chudurbudur.com’, Secretary to the Parliament Secretariat Mahfuzur Rahman told bdnews24.com: “The BTRC has already been asked to block the website.”
He said that the domain name did not have the suffix .govt.bd like Parliament’s official website address.
On Monday, Awami League MP Zunaid Ahmed Palak demanded a fine of Tk 30,000 on each ‘indecent’ word uttered inside the Parliament by any of its members.
Palak requested the Speaker to expel an MP from the House for at least one day for indecent remarks.
Source: Bd news24