JP MP urges Muhith to resign right now

An opposition MP today in parliament urged Finance Minister AMA Muhith to retire right now, taking responsibility for massive damage in the country's economic and banking sectors.

"Taking the responsibility, you please go into retirement today not waiting for December and relieve the nation. It’s our urge to you," Jatiya Party lawmaker Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu said while speaking on a point of order.

He also lambasted Muhith for not taking actions against scams in share market, banking sector and against those involved in Panama and Paradise papers and money laundering. 

Pointing to Muhith’s announcement that he will go into retirement in December, Bablu said, "Why will you continue haemorrhage till December? Please, relieve the people and the country. What do you need to wait until December for? You please go on retirement today and relieve the prime minister and all of us."

The Paradise Papers are a set of 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments that were leaked, while the Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney-client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities.

Claiming that what the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers revealed are authentic, he said the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif had to resign following the revelation of Panama Papers.

The opposition lawmaker claimed that thousands of crores of Taka is being laundered from the country. The government and the finance minister did not take any step against the capital flights though many names of Bangladeshis involved in money laundering came in Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, he added.

The Jatiya Party leader wondered why Muhith is scared to take measures against those whose names came in Panama Paper and Paradise Paper-1 and 2.

Bablu urged the prime minister to take actions against those whose names came in the Papers adding that the nation will appreciate her as they (whose names came in Papers) syphoned off the money of the country.