PM’s party ‘pleasure without conscience’: BNP

BNP has criticised the tea party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted for politicians.

At a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party’s senior joint secretary general, termed the party a “pleasure without conscience”.

“The arrangement by a regretless government after a grand vote robbery reminds me of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous saying 'pleasure without conscience’,” he said.

“This pleasure is a social sin,” Rizvi said.

“No democracy-loving party joined in the sin committed by the government which betrayed the nation and looted the vote of the people to come to power,” Rizvi said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted the tea party at her official residence Ganobhaban on Saturday for the leaders of political parties.

Major opposition BNP, its alliance Jatiya Oikyafront, and the parties included in the Left Democratic Alliance refrained from joining the party.