Watch your mouth: Khaleda to Hasina

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to mind her language when speaking about her son Tarique Rahman. ‘Watch your mouth, and keep that tongue at bay,’ Khaleda, also the former prime minister, said while addressing a discussion in the city. Tarique Rahman, also the BNP’s Senior Vice Chairman who is staying in London since 2008, has been making a series of slurs on Sheikh Hasina’s father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In his latest attack from London, on Dec 15, Tarique said Bangabandhu was actually a ‘Razakar’, that is a collaborator for the Pakistani Army during 1971. Wanted in an array of cases, including several graft cases, Tarique left Bangladesh for London to receive treatment in the UK at the end of 2008 after the military-backed caretaker government grabbed power. In reaction to his many remarks on Bangabandhu and Prime Minister Hasina said on Wednesday: ‘Ask your (Khaleda) son to watch what he says. The people of Bangladesh and the world will not tolerate this.’ Hasina, also the president of Awami League, described Tarique as an ‘illiterate person.’ ‘He has no education and speaks like a fool. The people know how to give lessons to an him,’ Hasina said, according to a news agency.