Khaleda's 'false statement' belittles nation, herself: Suranjit

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Senior Awami League (AL) leader Suranjit Sengupta has said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has belittled herself as well as the nation and her party claiming that she is a shelterless person.
"This is a blatant lie, shameless falsehood," he told BSS.
The former prime minister told foreign diplomats during Eid interactions that the government had exposed her to a state of homelessness through eviction from the Cantonment residence.
Mr Sengupta said that everybody including the diplomats knew it well that she had three houses-one in the Cantonment, one in posh Gulshan area and the rest at Minto Road which was her official residence as the Leader of the Opposition.
"This is a stigma to the nation, her own party and herself," said Mr Sengupta, also the chairman of parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs.
He said Khaleda Zia had to lose her Cantonment house because of her "bad political intention", while her learned lawyers largely contributed to her debacle in the legal battle to retain the posh house on 165 kathas of land, in which the court or the government had little to do.
"She is regarded as the 'iron lady of Bangladesh politics' and nobody saw her weeping even in any difficult situation ... it appeared unusual as she broke into tears before the media for a house," he added.
He said it was a universally settled issue that nobody should do politics using a Cantonment abode.
He said Khaleda Zia could have taken steps or applied to the government to turn the Cantonment residence into a museum to preserve her husband late President Ziaur Rahman's memory.
"In today's world nobody wants to see the legacy of martial laws, possibly even the BNP workers do not want her to do politics from the cantonment," Sengupta added in an apparent reference to Ziaur Rahman's emergence as the military ruler and his subsequent ascending to presidency living inside the house.