Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the MPs not to talk to her in the chamber as journalists sitting in the parliament gallery wrote about whatever she informally discussed with the lawmakers.
The premier made the suggestion as a group of MPs encircled her to place some demands after the House went into Magrib recess around 6:08 pm.
“Don't talk here. There are the journalists [who] write about whatever I say to you here,” she told the MPs, pointing at the reporters sitting in the journalists’ gallery behind her chair.
The MPs --chief whip ASM Feroz, whip Shahiduzzaman Sarker, whip Atiur Rahman Atik, Amanur Rahman Khan, Mahzabin Khaled, Sanwar Hossain, Nazibul Bashar Maizbhandari of Tariqat Federation, SM Abul Kalam Azad of Bangladesh Nationalist Front and others --stopped talking after casting a glance at the journalists. The prime minister then entered her gallery.
The MPs of all political parties throng near the prime minister’s seat during the recess of Magrib prayer and after the adjournment of sittings.
On Sunday, the prime minister made a frustrating comment on her party, saying all of the Awami League leaders except Sheikh Hasina could be bought. Many Awami League leaders were embarrassed by this comment.
Nazibul Bashar Maizbhandari yesterday sat on the chair of Law Minister Anisul Huq behind the prime minister for around an hour to talk to Sheikh Hasina during the Magrib prayer recess. She talked to Nazibul Bashar, but did not attend to his request.
