PM's remark on democracy a joke, says BNP's Mirza Fakhrul

The BNP described  the prime minister's remarks about the existence of a 'proper democratic process's in the country as a joke.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 4 May 2017, 11:13 AM
Updated : 4 May 2017, 11:13 AM

"The prime minister said that the country has a democratic process; it's you (the media) who can say what's really the case. It's the super joke of the year," senior leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Thursday.
 
Citing reports by the Amnesty International, the US state department and the European Union, he said Bangladesh has anything but a democracy.
 
Speaking at a question-and-answer session on Wednesday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the House that the country was on the right track of democracy as a successful election has been held.
 
Reacting to her remarks, Mirza Fakhrul said what Hasina said was 'untrue'.
 
On reports of Bangladesh losing as much as $9 billion to capital flight in 2014, the BNP secretary general said that corruption was the main objective of the government.
 
Referring to Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader recent remarks made in Chittagong, he said, "They have admitted of making money through corruption."