Criticising BNP’s letter to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) as drama, Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has said they (BNP) went to ACC to stage a drama.

The minister told the reporters after giving PIB-Sohel Samad Journalism Award at the meeting room of his ministry at the Secretariat in the capital. He handed over the award and cheque to journalist Syed Badrul Ahsan.

Earlier, BNP joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal along with the opposition party’s assistant office secretary Taiful Islam Tipu went to the ACC office around 1pm and handed over a letter to the authorities concerned demanding investigation into the allegations of corruption against ruling party leaders.

Hasan Mahmud said when the world champion in corruption talks about corruption then it creates a joke among the people.

“I watched on television that Alal and Dulal went to ACC on behalf of those who became world champions in corruption. I think, if ACC interrogates them then they would get the information about the looting that took place through Hawa Bhaban and how the country became champions in corruption for five consecutive times.”

Replying to a query on science teacher Hriday Mandal, the minister said the whole incident of Hriday Mandal is regretful and unexpected.  After the bail, he (Mandal) again claimed that he became a victim of an internal conspiracy of teachers, he added.

In response to a question about BNP secretary general’s comment on Pakistan’s election system, the minister said, “We have been talking for so long that Pakistan is the idol of BNP and its allies.”

“The party founder Ziaur Rahman wanted to confederate the country to Pakistan but could not. Mirza Fakhrul revealed yesterday that they still follow the ideology of that country.”

Information and Broadcasting Secretary Md Mokbul Hossain, Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) director general Zafar Wazed and awardee Syed Badrul Ahsan, among others, addressed the function. Syeda Jakia, wife of Badrul, and PIB officials were present at the function.

Badrul writes articles regularly at the country's newspapers including Asian Age, New Nation, Morning Sun, Bangladesh Observer, the daily Indpendent, News Today and the Daily Star. He was also discharged his duty as a press minister at Bangladesh High Commission to London from 1997 to 2000.
 
Badrul wrote a number of books including ‘From Revel to Founding Father: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’, ‘Glory and Disappear: The Politics of Tajuddin Ahmed’, and ‘The History Makers in Our Times’.