A couple of days after Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury ruled that the colloquial expression “chudurbudur” was not unparliamentary, the address of parliament’s website on Tuesday turned into www.chudurbudur.com in addition to its original address www.parliament.gov.bd.
Users have been able to see the Bangladesh parliament’s webpage and its contents by clicking www.chudurbudur.com since Tuesday.
Parliament Secretary Mahfuzur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune on Tuesday that someone had copied the contents of the Jatiya Sangsad’s website and pasted them on www.chudurbudur.com.
“We will track the person responsible for this as soon as possible,” he said.
Ekram Iqbal, the chief technical officer of the software firm Computer Network System, told the Dhaka Tribune that someone on June 13 had got a domain registered with godaddy.com without giving any meaningful name and information.
He said the law enforcement agencies could track the person as he had paid godaddy.com dollars for getting the registration from the US-based website builder.
The Bangla word chudurbudur, a colloquial expression of the greater Noakhali region and across the border in India, means “to dilly-dally.” According to Indian newspaper Ananda Bazar, the Bangla Academy refers the word as not being a slang, but not for formal use.
On June 9, BNP MP Rehana Akter Ranu in her colloquial tongue of Feni warned the ruling Awami League in parliament not to dilly-dally about the caretaker government system.
The word chudurbudur used by Rehana instantly created an uproar in the House as the ruling Awami League MPs started shouting about the use of the apparently unparliamentary and objectionable word. AL Whip ASM Feroz termed it a word of the red light areas, demanding that it should be expunged from the proceedings of the House.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, who hails from Noakhali’s Chatkhil area, told the House that she would examine the word and expunge if found objectionable.
On June 16, the speaker told the Dhaka Tribune that the word would be in the proceedings as it was not unparliamentary.
The Dhaka Tribune published the story on Sunday.
