Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon on Monday came down heavily on a parliamentary standing committee for its recommendation to find alternatives to female upazila nirbahi officers' presence during the guard of honour ceremonies given to deceased freedom fighters at their funeral.
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“Such humiliation [to females] cannot be acceptable,” he lamented, while participating in the discussion on the proposed budget for 2021-22 fiscal in Parliament.
Menon said such a recommendation is tantamount to humiliating women who sacrificed their lives and were subjected to rape during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
The parliamentary standing committee on Liberation War Affairs Ministry on Sunday recommended taking necessary measures to find alternatives to a female upazila nirbahi officer's presence during the guard of honour given to valiant freedom fighters after their deaths.
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The parliamentary standing committee came up with the recommendation in a meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with ruling Awami League lawmaker Shajahan Khan in the chair.
Menon in his speech said that although the finance minister mentioned about the economic progress in his budget, but it is also true that structural weakness and corruption in health sector has been exposed for the last one year.
Menon also criticised the budget for imposing VAT on private universities.
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"The proposed budget is businessman-friendly," he said.