Well, donor countries support our development effort with the tax money of their own people. Most of these donor countries are democratic countries. The people of those countries are very much concerned about good governance and human rights. They want to ensure good governance in their own countries as well as in the countries which they help.

Now what is happening in Bangladesh? The ministers will say that everything is going well and only some opposition parties are trying to create anarchy. They will also say that some newspapers are reporting false things to tarnish the image of the country. Of course they never forget to blame the opposition, especially the leader of opposition for the image crisis of Bangladesh. However, the real picture is completely different from what the ministers are saying. One does not need to read papers or listen to opposition to analyse what is going on. At the beginning of the last year opposition MP Ahsan Ullah Master was killed. In the middle of the year an AL rally was attacked and more than 20 people were killed. Very recently, SAMS Kibria was killed. In both Ahsan Ullah Master and Kibria killing, BNP activists were suspected as killers. However, the BNP is trying to portray these incidents as regional events. On the other hand, there is no progress in August 21 grenade attack case. I do not know whether this attack is a national event or metropolitan event!! Such continuous attacks on the main opposition party is simply unimaginable in any democratic country. Similarly, for more than one year, allegedly under the patronage of ruling party MPs, Bangla Bhai has created terror in the northern part of Bangladesh. At the beginning, the government dismissed any report on Bangla Bhai as opposition propaganda to tarnish our image. But later the government admitted existence of Bangla Bhai and his group. And it even made an attempt to crack down on the activities of Bangla Bhai. However, all sorts of campaign against Bangla Bhai have now been stopped because of the protest from a component of the ruling coalition. Now it is obvious that the problem lies within the coalition. If someone blames the coalition government for the rise of Bangla Bhai, then he will be blamed for tarnishing the image of the country.

The government of any developed country has to justify to the people of that country why it is giving aid to Bangladesh. The people of any developed country want best utilisation of the aid money. When the envoys of these countries see what is happening in Bangladesh, of course they will protest. They have the right to protest. However, unfortunately our government is considering such protest as interference in the country's politics