WB may fund Padma bridge if Abul out

Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque yesterday said the World Bank might finance the Padma bridge project if the government sacrifices former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain.
“They [government] must sacrifice a person and he is Abul. The World Bank may finance the Padma bridge project only after sacrificing him,” he said.
Farroque was addressing a sit-in organised by Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Dal before the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
The remarks came after Suranjit Sengupta, the minister without portfolio, in MC College ground of Sylhet on Saturday said the Padma bridge could not be constructed without any sacrifice.
During yesterday's sit-in, Farroque said the home minister has lost his moral ground to stay in the office after the death of an eight-year-old boy in a gunfight between two factions of BCL at Bangladesh Agricultural University on Saturday.
"If you [home minister] are a true politician, you would have resigned," he said.