Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has demanded an immediate ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami.
“The Jamaat is accused of terrorism and militancy at present… I am placing our party’s demand for a ban on the Jamaat,” she told the parliament participating in the budget discussion.
Menon also said the BNP now wants to reach a political compromise especially after failing to topple the government.
“If they want compromise, they will have to return to democratic ways leaving violence and they will have to sever ties with the Jamaat,” he told parliament.
He expressed his dissatisfaction over the government’s failure to ensure good governance and effective steps against recent incidents of sexual harassment of women.
“We could not take proper steps to this end. When a woman does not feel safe to move freely at night, a society cannot be called a civilized one.”
He also alleged that tender manipulation, violence, killing and forced disappearance were tarnishing the government image.
On privatisation of power sector, Menon said: “We have to consider how it would be convenient for an independent country to make the power sector privatised.”
The government move for rental power plants and quick rental power plants to resolve power crisis by enacting a special law goes against the national interest of the country.
He said the special law is not needed any more as significant progress and capacity have already been achieved in the power sector.
Menon maintained that if corruption is curbed, country’s GDP growth rate will increase by 2.5%.
