M Kamal takes a swipe at Muhith

In an unprecedented manner, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday hit out at Finance Minister AMA Muhith over the latter's alleged lack of results during his tenure.
“He [Muhith] talks big. He proposes a massive budget every year. The speech is so long that he crashes out while delivering it,” Kamal said during his extraordinary interaction with a group of journalists.
“But in practice, he fails to deliver on many of the things. If I were him, I would keep the budget speech to just 15 pages.”
The journalists were hanging around the planning ministry's public relations office when he abruptly walked in and went on a tirade against the most senior member of the cabinet.
The two ministers have been at loggerheads for the past couple of months over the size of the revised budget for annual development programme. The planning minister called for Tk 61,000 crore, but given the financial constraints Muhith advocated for limiting the budget to Tk 55,000 crore.
“He said that I should get a grip of the reality. I am his colleague, not his subordinate—how could he say that to me?”
Kamal also touched upon the concept of public-private partnership championed by Muhith.
“He has come with this thing called public-private partnership. Every year he allocates Tk 2,000 crore to Tk 3,000 crore for it, but no-one knows what it is. Is it a cow or a goat?”
About the finance minister's intent to file a case against the World Bank, Kamal said: “He takes pension from the World Bank. Do you believe that he will take legal actions against them?”
When contacted, Muhith said: “It is rubbish. I have worked for many organisations in the world, but I have never taken any pension from them, except the Bangladesh government.”