Chief Whip ASM Feroz incurred the wrath of an Awami League lawmaker “for not allocating him a room.”
On Monday, first-time MP Bahauddin Nasim, former assistant private secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (1996-2001), called Feroz in lobby 4 and hurled abusive at him after the Maghrib recess in the presence of several MPs.
Both Nasim and Feroz traded hot words. Security personnel and parliament staff were sent out of the lobby.
Nasim took a swipe at the chief whip as he was using five rooms according to a newspaper report.
“You have locked my room but you are using five rooms. How dare you lock my room?” Nasim yelled at Feroz.
The MPs present intervened and took Nasim to another place to defuse the tension.
“I protested his comments and aggressive attitude; I have not misused my authority,” Feroz told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. He said Nasim’s allegations were not right.