President of Bikalpadhara Bangladesh AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury yesterday strongly deplored the prime minister’s remarks over his meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
He said Hasina had exposed her bad taste by calling the former president “Badu Kaka.”
“It is a manifestation of bad taste of a person like the honourable prime minister by making fun of calling a former president Badu Kaka,” Badruddoza said in a statement.
He also said it was an unbecoming comment by a prime minister as well as a daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
One of the founding members of the BNP, Badruddoza later resigned as president of the BNP-Jamaat’s 2001-06 government.
On Thursday night, Badruddoza had a meeting with Khaleda at her Gulshan office where he had urged the BNP chief to send a proposal to the government for engaging in a dialogue aiming at holding a free, fair and inclusive fresh national election. The two parties also agreed to work together over the issue.
Pointing at the meeting, Hasina at a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Friday said the BNP chairperson was now looking for newer excuses to wage a fresh movement.
“Now she [Khaleda] is supplicating those whom she had driven away before. I have seen in a picture that she wearing a red saree is talking to Badu Kaka [Badruddoza]. I do not know whether Badu Kaka went there with a bunch of Rajanigandha [flower].”