Bangladesh
Home Minister Garment workers movement fueled by BNP: Home Minister
Dhaka, Nov 13: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal claimed that BNP fueled the ongoing movement of garment workers over salary hike and said that a BNP leader in Kushtia fueled the movement of garment workers in Konabari and united them. The minister made this claim in response to a question while talking to the journalists of his office at the secretariat on Sunday.
Garment workers protested in Mirpur on Sunday as well. When asked the reason for this, the Home Minister said, "The Prime Minister has increased the wages of garment workers by 56 percent. Increased a lot. The minimum wage has been increased from Tk 8,000 to Tk 12,500. We hear that many people have doubts and doubts. What will happen to second grade, third grade, fourth grade. The owners will surely solve them, they will do business. The solution is not fire, the solution is not vandalism, the solution is not blocking roads."
"The most compelling thing is what we're getting through the video footage," he said. "Almost all of them are BNP activists. We saw a Kushtia leader coming to Konabari encouraging the workers, uniting them. Those who have been caught on camera at various places, whom we have caught - they are all BNP activists. They are instigating these innocent workers. Collecting them. Maybe they want to make a system of whether success can be found in this place by failing in all areas."
"If there is any objection regarding the wages, the workers could have solved it by sitting with the owners," the minister said. This means that BNP has fuel in the labor movement - on being asked, the Home Minister said, "Of course there is fuel, we are saying that there is fuel."
In response to a question about the treatment of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the minister said that she is receiving medical treatment from the best hospital in the country and experts from abroad are also treating her. So I don't think there is a shortage of treatment.
He said that the election commission will call the election on time, everyone will participate in it - that is the expectation of the people. We still say that they will come to the election, there is no other chance to change the government without the election. So they have to come in the elections, if the government wants to change.
