Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has slammed the opposition MPs of her own country and said that those who are talking about boycotting Indian products should first burn the sarees of their wives.
He has also asked the opposition leaders demanding boycott of Indian products that first they should tell how many Indian sarees their wives have and why they are not setting them on fire?
Sheikh Hasina, while addressing a meeting of her party Awami League, hit out at leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) who had called for a boycott of Indian products.
Hasina said, “My question is, how many Indian sarees do their wives have? And why aren’t they taking sarees from their wives and setting them on fire? Please BNP leaders tell this.”
Sheikh Hasina, who came to power in Bangladesh for the fourth consecutive time through elections held earlier this year, said that when BNP was in power, its ministers and their wives used to buy sarees on their visits to India and sell them in Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasina did not stop there. He also discussed Indian spices and asked whether Indian garlic, onion, ginger, garam masala and other spices are not used in the kitchens of opposition leaders’ homes.
A report in The Daily Star said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comments came after BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi threw his Kashmir shawl on the road as a symbolic protest and boycott against Indian products.
Let us tell you that ‘India-Out’ campaign is being run in Bangladesh, which has been started by some activists and influential people but the leaders of opposition BNP are supporting it.
The campaign has gained momentum in recent times following Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League’s fourth consecutive victory.
People involved in this campaign claim that India wants to keep Sheikh Hasina in power in Bangladesh because it is serving India’s business interests.