Kamal urges all to join relief works
Monday, 6 August 2007
People of all walks of life have been urged to come forward with the spirit of humanism to face country's deteriorating flood situation and save millions of people marooned or pushed out of homes into makeshift camps.
Eminent lawyer Kamal Hossain made the appeal while speaking at a press conference in the city Sunday, a day after the top leaders of the caretaker government made an appeal for all to help the flood victims, reports UNB.
He also stressed the need for forging national unity of people irrespective of party and opinion to effectively tackle this severe crisis of the nation.
"There is no restriction of law for people (politicians) to stand beside the flood-hit people," he added.
Kamal Hossain requested the non-party interim government to disseminate necessary information in connection with the flood situation without "pretending" like all past political governments.
"It's government's constitutional responsibility to provide the accurate information to the people."
Kamal Hossain, who always advocates for national unity to defeat divisive politics, said there was no government or law that could suspend citizens' right to live. "Everybody has the minimum right to live."
He also proposed that the amount of about Tk 6.0 to 7.0 billion siphoned off the country and now recovered by the caretaker government during the current anti-corruption drive could be spent for the flood-stricken people to provide them with food and pure water supply.
"The flood-hit people remained in severe crisis of pure water," he told the newsmen.
Kamal Hossain, also a former foreign minister, thought that Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed should address the nation at this critical moment to inform people about the actual gravity of the situation.
"It is necessary to bring forth the monitoring reports for the knowledge of all," he said.
He further urged the government to respond positively so that people of all platforms could take part in this massive activity to tackle the flood, casting off procrastination. "If I were in government, I would not question people about their source of money at this critical moment."
Kamal said the government would have to manage seeds of transplant Amon paddy for the farmers of flood-hit areas and allocate money to help handloom industry, which were heavily damaged in the deluge.
He also requested the lending organisations, including government and non-government organisations (NGOs), to reschedule their lending process for the poor, as they would remain in hardship until the Bengali month of Kartik in the lean period.
Among others, former secretary general of SAARC Abul Ahsan Chowdhury, writer-columnist Syed Abul Muksud, Abul Kashem, Shubrata Chowdhury, Mofizul Islam and former whip Abdur Rouf were present at the press conference.
Eminent lawyer Kamal Hossain made the appeal while speaking at a press conference in the city Sunday, a day after the top leaders of the caretaker government made an appeal for all to help the flood victims, reports UNB.
He also stressed the need for forging national unity of people irrespective of party and opinion to effectively tackle this severe crisis of the nation.
"There is no restriction of law for people (politicians) to stand beside the flood-hit people," he added.
Kamal Hossain requested the non-party interim government to disseminate necessary information in connection with the flood situation without "pretending" like all past political governments.
"It's government's constitutional responsibility to provide the accurate information to the people."
Kamal Hossain, who always advocates for national unity to defeat divisive politics, said there was no government or law that could suspend citizens' right to live. "Everybody has the minimum right to live."
He also proposed that the amount of about Tk 6.0 to 7.0 billion siphoned off the country and now recovered by the caretaker government during the current anti-corruption drive could be spent for the flood-stricken people to provide them with food and pure water supply.
"The flood-hit people remained in severe crisis of pure water," he told the newsmen.
Kamal Hossain, also a former foreign minister, thought that Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed should address the nation at this critical moment to inform people about the actual gravity of the situation.
"It is necessary to bring forth the monitoring reports for the knowledge of all," he said.
He further urged the government to respond positively so that people of all platforms could take part in this massive activity to tackle the flood, casting off procrastination. "If I were in government, I would not question people about their source of money at this critical moment."
Kamal said the government would have to manage seeds of transplant Amon paddy for the farmers of flood-hit areas and allocate money to help handloom industry, which were heavily damaged in the deluge.
He also requested the lending organisations, including government and non-government organisations (NGOs), to reschedule their lending process for the poor, as they would remain in hardship until the Bengali month of Kartik in the lean period.
Among others, former secretary general of SAARC Abul Ahsan Chowdhury, writer-columnist Syed Abul Muksud, Abul Kashem, Shubrata Chowdhury, Mofizul Islam and former whip Abdur Rouf were present at the press conference.