LONDON, Aug 13 (UNB): Speaker Advocate Abdul Hamid has said there are some bad aspects of the 1/11 political changeover but it has left two lessons, including one that none can escape committing corruption.
Talking to journalists from Bangla news media at Montefiori Centre in East London, Advocate Hamid said the second lesson is that people's misery aggravates without a people's government in power. And the bad aspect is that it was an undemocratic government.
Speaker Hamid, here in connection with a Non-Resident Bangladeshi (NRB) conference, said politicians must change the mindset, stop wastage of money and avoid unnecessary spending of money in the name of 'Honda procession'.
"One needs to change one's mindset to establish digital Bangladesh," he said, adding that corruption must be uprooted and population boom controlled to steer the country forward.
The Speaker led a four-member parliamentary team to the NRB conference. The other members are Sanjida Khanum, Atiur Rahman, Afzal Hossain and Mujibul Huq Chunnu.
The Speaker told his audience in the British capital that he is trying to run Parliament neutrally as guardian of the parliament but deplored opposition BNP's absence from the proceedings.
He said sitting arrangement for BNP in the House is not an issue that stopped them from joining parliament. "They have their internal disputes over who will sit where," he observed.
1/11 political changeover left two lessons: Speaker
FE Team | Published: August 14, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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