Opposition Chief Whip and Convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) Nahid Islam on Thursday told Parliament that the President needs to be removed and arrested.
“The President has no right to stay at Bangabhaban to come here and give a speech,” he said taking part in the thanksgiving motion on President’s speech.
Nahid said he was made ACC Commissioner with three goals- to confirm the corruption allegations against Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman, to give a clean chit to Awami League from the Padma Bridge corruption allegations and to cancel the corruption cases against Sheikh Hasina and other Awami League leaders during the Fakhruddin-Moinuddin government.
Nahid Islam also questioned how the BNP government continues to recognise and accept such a person as the President.
President Shahabuddin Chuppu is the mastermind behind handing over Islami Bank to S Alam, said Nahid. “We know everything about his (President) role during the July genocide, his connection with fascism. But unfortunately, a corrupt, useless, liar, and an accomplice to genocide is still the President of Bangladesh,”
He accused the government of betraying the aspirations of the July Mass Uprising and failing to bring necessary constitutional changes.
"None of us has said that the July Uprising is bigger than the Liberation War or the July Uprising is bigger than '90 or smaller than '90(mass uprising). The July Uprising is a special event in the history of Bangladesh,” he said.
He said after BNP government came to power, one thing has been coming up repeatedly: improving relations with India. “The statement the Foreign Minister, who was the national security adviser to the previous government, made is not clear to us. On what basis are we talking about improving relations with India?
Nahid said, "We want to improve relations with India. India is our neighboring country. But this development of relations must be based on dignity and equality."
Referring to the TIB report, Nahid said, 59.41 percent of the government party candidates ran for the election have debts. “Members of parliament have debts of 11,000 crore taka, most of which are from the government party. Most of them were in debt, but they repaid their debts by paying some money before the election.”
“The current Bangladesh Bank Governor is rescheduling debts. He is experienced in this, so it is clear why he was made the Governor of Bangladesh Bank. For the first time in the history of the country, a businessman has been made the Governor of Bangladesh Bank to provide him with the facilities to rescheduling loans worth thousands of crores of taka. As a result, I can no longer trust them,” he said.
Criticising the BNP's 'Note of Dissention' in the July National Charter, Nahid said that the July National Charter has been tainted by giving it a 'Note of Dissent'.
Referring to the referendum, Nahid Islam said, "We participated in the referendum based on everyone's consent. The Prime Minister herself campaigned for reforms and for 'Yes' in the referendum. But after the election, BNP took a different stance.
Criticizing this, he said, "It was necessary to make it clear before the election that you do not accept the referendum. Whether yes or no wins this referendum has nothing to do with you. They didn't do that."