Posted on 12 April 2008 by Dhaka Correspondent
Motia Chowdhury queues to buy rice
Awami presidium member Motia Chowdhury waits in a queue to buy rice from an open market sale in South Basabo. Dhaka, Bangladesh. April 12 2008.
Photo- Stringer/*Drik*NEWS
April 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Matia Chowhdury once again showed a great example of true leadership. Our leaders should walk in the shoes of an average citizen to understand their agony, thier day to day problem. It showed how wrong General Moeen was with his statemetn that there is no cirisis for rice in Bangladesh after his quick visit to the market. For an army person under structured comfortable life he will never understand the agony and pain of average person when army pays below 5 taka per kilo of rice!!! It shows how unfortuante it is for our country to be lead under army leadersihp.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Another action of Great Maia Apa to show that she is always with the mass. Leaders must intrgrate with suffering people.The country is definitely in the grip of serious food and energy crisis. There is crisis all over the globe. But our narrow visosned Army Chief trying to ignore it. He suggested people to take potato and then treated the Journalists with 10 course potato dominated lunch. When majority is struggling to arrnge two square meals he did a mockery. Being a Government survent he must not continue to criticise politics and politicians. Does his service rule permit these? Wonder whether he should be charged for violating his service rule.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Bangladesh achieved consistent food surplus under Motia’s able leadership in Agriculture and Food Ministry. We enjoyed 8% growth rate in agriculture when she was running the ministry. I still remeber how Saifur Rahman Sahib derided Motia stating that food self sufficiency deprived Bangladesh of foreign aid. I feel Hasina was a much better PM than her father. I firmly believe that if elected to serve, Motia will prove herself to be of Indira Gandhi’s calibre.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Motia Chowdhury: Banga Kanya - The Daughter of Bangladesh
A nation, developed, developing or underdeveloped, can boast a few patriots of Motia’s calibre. For Bangladesh, it is only Motia, a loner and the brightest in her orbit which is unparallel. She is humble and serene like the nature of Bangladesh, yet so feisty like a monsoon river on the street of protests. When patriotism and honesty were traded for comfort and wealth by the once valiant heroes of our political past, they gradually lost their moral shelter and repugnantly transformed into a herd of rats, bats and mules. But to Motia, virtues and reasons are the irreversible concept of life. That concept lures her to the street, gives her strength to barricade the goliath of evils for the protection of her kinfolk. Every starved person of her country is her kin. Therefore when she stands in the line for rice and waits for hours oblivious of scorching sun and weariness of recent ailment, she reflects one of the millions, famished. Will the children fall asleep hungry tonight – that is her only agony now. She is Motia, the ‘Agni Kanya’ evolved through age and experience to become Banga Kanya, the daughter of Bangladesh.