News Desk : 29 October 2017 >
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has left Dhaka for a four-day trip to Cox`s Bazar to see the Rohingya refugee camps
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to play the similar role in a bid to resolve the Rohingya crisis that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi played during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.
He made this comment on Saturday morning before his journey to Cox’s Bazar with the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
This news circulated rapidly in the media with similar heading to Mirza Fakhrul urged PM to play the role of Indira Gandhi. As the two major parties of Bangladesh have failed to establish a rapport between them, the journalists baited on it.
The next chapter of the story unfolded when Fakhrul was with Khaleda in the motorcade, heading to Cox’s Bazar for the planned relief distribution in the Rohingya camps. Somebody within the party tossed the word to the Chairperson’s ear which made her furious straightaway.
“You have never spoken a word against Sheikh Hasina. And, here you are now! The Secretary General of BNP is trying to elevate her (Sheikh Hasina) greatness! Have you forgotten that you’re the Secretary General of BNP?”, said Khaleda to Fakhrul.
Khaleda added, “What will Hasina give to you for your praise, Fakhrul?”
It was not known whether Mirza Fakhrul had made any statement in his defense. But it is certain that the next part of his conversation with the Chairperson was not a pleasing one.
