BNP will publish white paper on corruption during Awami League’s tenure: Moudud

BNP leader Moudud Ahmed has said that this is not the last government in the country, and his party will publish a white paper on corruption during the Awami League government’s tenure when it comes to power.

“This is not the last government. This government will have to go today or tomorrow. After that, In-sha-Allah, a white paper on all the corruptions that took place during this government’s tenure will be published,” Moudud said.

The senior BNP leader made the comments at a discussion at the National Club in Dhaka on Friday, two days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina criticised the BNP for corruption during its tenure.

The ‘accounts of corruptions’ by the ministers and MPs of the current government and the district-level leaders of the ruling party, and the businesspeople backed by these leaders will be published, and they will be brought to justice, he threatened.

“This government has no accountability or monitoring. It has taken big projects to gain billions of takas in bribes,” he alleged. 

According to the Standing Committee member, 15 cases were started against Hasina during the military-controlled caretaker government’s regime, but all of those have been dropped.

“And my leader (Khaleda Zia) had four cases. Now she had 32 more cases against her,” he said and added he would write these in his next book.

Moudud, who had worked as the vice-president of Bangladesh during the regime of HM Ershad’s Jatiya Party, slammed the government for ‘taking away his home without any notice or court order’.

“I bought it from an individual. It wasn’t any government property,” he claimed.

He also said many had a ‘wrong’ perception that he ‘does not want to go to jail’.

“I was put in jail twice during this government…Prison is nothing new to me. I had to be in jail eight times. The first time I was jailed in 1955, during the Language Movement,” he said.