Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta said in this era of technology it was a massive failure on the part of the authority for not being able to trace the Pinak 6, the launch which sank in the Padma River, even after five days of operations.
The Awami League Advisory Council member made the statement while addressing a meeting at the Engineers’ Institute in the capital.
“In this era of science and technology, it is a huge failure to not be able to identify the position of a sunken launch,” he said.
He sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s interference to put a stop to the capsizing of launches.
“We do not want to see such accidents or the dead bodies of innocent people and the mourning of their relatives,” he said.
Incidents, like launch capsizes, would continue until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina personally looked into the issue, said Suranjit.
