Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Joint General Secretary of Awami League. Hasan Mahmud said, ‘BNP criticizes the lockdown, but it is cleared that the lockdown is being criticized, it is not clear what the BNP leaders really want.’
He said this in a contemporary context in the speech of the chief guest at the second stage of the help check distribution ceremony from the Journalist Welfare Trust at the Bangladesh Press Institute auditorium in Kakrail of the capital on Sunday (July 18).
Dr. ‘The lockdown has been relaxed for a week before Eid, it has been done with a lot of thought,’ Hasan said. When the lockdown was announced for two weeks, I saw that Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was criticized for the lockdown by BNP. When it was relaxed for a week, he criticized again for why he was relaxed. What is the question, that is what they want.’
The Managing Director of the Trust, Zafar Wazed, presided over the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as a special guest. Murad Hasan, Secretary Maqbool Hasen spoke. Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists-BFUJ President Mealla Jalal, Acting Secretary General Abdul Majeed, Dhaka Journalist Union-DUJ President Quddus Afrad and General Secretary Sajjad Alam Khan Tapu took part in the discussion.
State Minister Dr. Murad Hasan said that the example of support that media-friendly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has set for journalists is really rare.
Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Vice Chairman of Journalist Welfare Trust, Maqbul Hasen, referred to Journalist Welfare Trust as a bridge between the government and journalists.
On this day, the guests handed over checks to 30 of the aided people. From the allocation of the financial year 2020-21, the program of donating 15 lakh 50 thousand taka to 149 journalists and members of the journalist family is going on and before that, 201 people have been given 2 kt 9 lakh 50 thousand taka in the first phase, said the trust authorities.
