“Actually, BNP leaders have lost their senses after the party’s debacle in the election. That’s why, they’re now talking incoherently. It’s evident in the remarks of its secretary general (Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir) and senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi,” he said.
The minister was talking to reporters at the secretariat.
He claimed that BNP candidates did not conduct electioneering properly before the polls. “In most constituencies, they didn’t take the field sensing their defeat beforehand. Their main aim was to make the election questionable. So, they’re now talking many things about the election to make it questionable,” he said.
Pointing to Rizvi, Hasan Mahmud suggested that they go for soul-searching to know the reasons behind their election defeat instead of exposing their political ‘bankruptcy’ holding a press conference every day. “You should analyse why your candidates did not go for electioneering, take action against those involved in the nomination trade and reorganise the party.”
He also claimed that no election was held so peacefully as the recent one was held.
Responding to a query about the wage board for journalists, the minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formed a seven-member committee at the first meeting of the new cabinet on Monday which will work to speedily implement the wage board.