Same laws operate differently for Khaleda Zia & Haji Salim?
Both BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League MP Haji Salim are convicts. Both needed treatment abroad. Even though family members of Khaleda Zia have asked the law minister and government repeatedly to take her abroad for medical treatment, they were denied by the authorities. Yet Haji Salim, who's been convicted for 10 years over corruption, has returned home after receiving medical treatment in Bangkok, Thailand. There has been soaring criticism in the national media regarding the treatment by the government in regard to the two convicts.
Why is there so much difference in the implementation of law in the case of two politicians from two different parties? Is Haji Salim entitled to receive different treatment since he is affiliated with the ruling party?
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Golam Mortoza, the editor of The Daily Star Bangla joins Debjani Shyama to discuss the different treatment given to the two politicians in today's viewsroom.
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