Mob incidents continue despite Home Minister's assurance: Rumeen Farhana

Independent MP Rumeen Farhana has alleged in parliament that mob incidents continue to occur one after another despite Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed's assurance that there would be no more mob culture in the country.

Addressing the home minister, she said, "Our home minister is present here. He assured us not once, not twice, but several times that mob culture will not continue in the country. He assured us that lawlessness will not continue in Bangladesh. He assured that the people of Bangladesh will get justice. But we see one mob incident after another taking place."

Rumeen Farhana made these allegations while taking part in a brief discussion on a motion to waive Rule 71 on an urgent public importance matter in the parliament session on Monday, April 20. The session began at 3:00 pm with Deputy Speaker Kaiser Kamal in the chair.

Rumeen Farhana said, "Different countries have different cultures – dance culture, music culture, acting culture, poetry culture. In our country, for the last one and a half years and the following two months, we have been seeing mob culture. The governor of Bangladesh Bank was removed by a mob. The chief of BSS was mobbed. A mob took place at the Barishal court premises. A mob took place at lawyers' chambers in the Supreme Court. The Daily Star and Prothom Alo offices were vandalised. In Chattogram, one and a half years ago, a person suspected of snatching was beaten to death while dancing and singing. In Kushtia, an alleged pir was beaten to death a few days ago."

Rumeen Farhana said when people do not get justice, such culture increases, and people get involved in such activities. People have frustration, anger, intense inequality and, above all, a lack of exemplary punishment. The person who was beaten to death by a mob in Chattogram one and a half years ago has not yet received justice.