Communications Minister Obaidul Quader criticized new lawmakers yesterday for their continued use of school children to welcome politicians, urging them to come out of such practices.
“Try to love your people. It’s the duty of the parliamentarians and ministers to please their people,” he told parliamentarians while addressing a reception programme for three newly elected lawmakers of Feni, at the district town’s Trank Road.
Quader’s comment comes a day after hundreds of school children were forced to stand in queues to welcome newly-appointed State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, who has been elected from the Rajshahi 6 constituency, during a reception programme at Bagha High School in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi.
The Feni reception programme was organised to welcome three new lawmakers Shirin Akhter from Feni-1, Nijamuddin Hazari from Feni-2 and Hazi Rahmatullah from Feni-3 constituencies.
However, the reception itself was arranged by blocking the Trank Road, a prime thoroughfare of the district town, and the preparations of the programme had reportedly kept the road blocked for the last five days.
