1/11 bashers told to shut up PM asks party colleagues not to join BNP bandwagon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned her party leaders not to join the opposition BNP men in speaking against the 1/11 changeover and just-retired army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed.At a cabinet meeting, she and her colleagues expressed resentment at some of the ruling party leaders making 'derogatory remarks' about Moeen and 1/11.Hasina, also president of Awami League, said she would soon sit with the leaders in question and caution that the way they have lately been conducting themselves amounts to playing into the hands of the opposition. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam raised the issue. Some cabinet members said a few AL leaders are speaking like BNP's Moudud Ahmed and Khandaker Delwar Hossain out of frustrations they maybe feeling for not getting a berth in the cabinet, said meeting sources. Both Moudud and Delwar have been calling for trial of Moeen and others for bringing about 1/11. The AL chief said her party men talking like that will only damage the government's morale, and this cannot be accepted, added the sources.She suspects there is a conspiracy behind bashing the former army chief and the changes that came on January 11, 2007. Some AL leaders might have reached an understanding with the BNP leaders Nahid is likely to introduce three more bills today, said officials at the Parliament Secretariat.The education minister said the prime minister wants to be relieved of the chancelleries, and the president has consented to take over. |
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