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Education Minister Nahid must quit over question leaks: Badruddoza
Former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury has asked whether Bangladesh needs an education minister like Nurul Islam Nahid after public examinations have been marred by a series of question leaks.
Published : 24 Dec 2017, 04:45 PM
Updated : 24 Dec 2017, 06:14 PM
"There should not be a minister after such incidents. Never," he told the audience at the national annual conference of the National Youth Forum at the Supreme Court Bar Association auditorium on Sunday.
Of late, public examinations system has been plagued by leaks of questions from PEC to recruitment tests and those being made available for free online or sold.
"Even questions of class I, II and III are leaked, I heard. After such incidents, the minister did not resign or punitive measures were not taken against the teachers. Are they fit to be teachers?" asked Badruddoza, who heads the Bikalpadhara Bangladesh party and recently opened a new political alliance ‘Jukta Front’.
Badruddoza, who had also served as education minister for a brief period, asked the youths to think about the consequences of these incidents.
Death penalty for child abuser
The former president called for introducing the death penalty for child rapists.
"I just cringe in shame when I see the news that a four-year-old has been raped. The death penalty should be the only punishment for them. When hanging was introduced as the penalty for acid throwers, the cowards simply vanished," he added.
"Just enact a law tomorrow that the child rapists will be hanged, I can guarantee there will be no child rape from next week," he said.
He also asked that the constitutional power of the president to excuse a convict should be taken away.
BNP leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury also spoke at the programme titled 'Cyberethics and youth engagement in cybercrimes’.
Amir Khosru said the cyber heist in Bangladesh Bank was, in fact, an attack on the security of the financial system.
"It's an attack on our privacy," he added.
He criticised the authorities for not publishing the report on the Bangladesh Bank cyber attack.
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