Noman Sabit: Khaled Mohiuddin, the former chief journalist of the German-based international media Deutsche Welle’s Bengali department, has publicly criticized the Head of the Interim Government of Bangladesh and Nobel laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus’s Nobel award. He said, Nobel Prize is nothing. It’s just a prize. 1 crore or 2 crores taka worth.
He said these things in the speech of the chief guest at a meeting aimed at realizing the demands of expatriates at the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights last Sunday.
Khaled Mohiuddin’s negative comments are under fire. Many have strongly protested his statement. A protest meeting has already been held in New York to protest his speech. When Dr. Yunus arrived in New York, Khaled Mohiuddin was asked to boycott all events. On August 15, journalist Khaled Muhiuddin joined the Bengali newspaper Adresha published from New York, USA.
Khaled Mohiuddin, who has just arrived in New York, was the chief guest at the meeting organized by the initiative of Fakhrul Alam, the former general secretary of Bangladesh Society. Khaled Mohiuddin while speaking at the meeting. He made fun of Dr. Yunus.
He said, Nobel prize is only a prize worth 1 crore or 2 crores taka, it is nothing else. It’s just a prize.
He further said that till now you have known that the people are the source of all power. Its words are wrong. Open the constitution and see what is written in it? It is written in the constitution that the people own all the powers. Dr. Yunus is a public servant like Sheikh Hasina. They get paid with people’s money.
He raised questions about the corruption of the New York-Dhaka flight and said that at one time the New York-Dhaka flight was in operation. Whose fault is it closed? It is necessary to find out whether it is all the government’s fault or whose fault it has been closed due to corruption. Is there any guarantee that corruption will not happen again if Biman is launched?
The Anti-Discrimination Expatriate Conscious Society USA and Expatriate Bangladeshi Citizen Society have strongly condemned and protested the highly offensive, impulsive and ignorant opinion of Salman F Rahman’s former Independent Television journalist Khaled Mohiuddin to the Nobel laureate and the head of the current interim government of Bangladesh. They strongly demanded to boycott Khaled Mohiuddin from all other offices including the United Nations during the Chief Advisor’s visit to New York due to this comment.
In a protest meeting organized in this regard, many people including New York’s conscious expatriate society, politicians, teachers, journalists, intellectuals, writers, poets, doctors, professionals spoke. Professor of Finance and Commerce Department of Long Island University of the United States presided over the protest meeting held on September 10.
The press release sent from the protest meeting and given through social media said that after the protest meeting Prof. Dr. Shawkat Ali, Dr. Hasnat Hossain, Professor Dr. Jaglul Haider, Rita Rahman, Dr. Abul Kashem, Dr. Monir Ahmed, Moinuddin Nasser, Khandaker Farhad, Jamal Ahmed Jani, Abdus Sabur, Ahmed Sohail, Mohammad Q Zaman, Taser Mahmud Khan, Shah Alam Dulal, Mirza Azam, Mohammad Suruzzaman, Sayed Tareq, M Rahman Masum, Hamid Sohail and Mirza Azam among.
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