‘Tuku comes, tuku goes’ : Rumeen’s joke on load shedding in parliament

Rumeen Farhana, Independent Member of Parliament, has criticised the government over fuel crisis and load shedding. Highlighting the sufferings of common people regarding the gas and electricity supply situation she said uncertainty has also been created among people over when the supply comes and when it goes away.

She said these while taking part in the discussion on drawing attention to urgent public importance issues in the Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday (August 27). At this time explaining the gas and electricity situation in a humorous tone she said naughty people say, ‘Tuku comes, tuku goes. This comes, this goes. How long it stays, they supposedly cannot understand.’

Rumeen Farhana said on one hand the price of oil is rising, on the other hand there is outcry of people for electricity and gas is also not available in many places. In such a situation she also raised questions about the implementation of the promise of creating one crore new employments before the election.

She said within just six months of the government coming to power 62,000 people have lost jobs and more than 900 factories have closed down. She expressed doubt about how new employment will be created in this situation. At the same time she also expressed concern about how long the employment of those who are currently in jobs will last.

Raising the context of the government’s 180-day priority programme Rumeen Farhana said among these improvement of law and order, control of commodity prices and certainty of the energy sector are among the important issues. But she commented that there are questions whether the situation has improved according to people’s expectations in these areas.

This Member of Parliament also criticized the government over the law and order situation. She said when speaking on this issue the home minister either makes satire or tries to hide the matter through wordplay. She also commented that a different picture of the country’s law and order situation is found when talking to common people.