Dhaka: An influential Bangladesh politician resigned on Tuesday after sexist scolding against the grandson who was sick of the country’s opposition leader and his claim threatened a prominent actress with rape.
The Minister of State Information Murad Hassan was launched into the insults of Khaleda Zia, the former Prime Minister was then imprisoned by his rival and mainstream Sheikh Hasina, during a talk show’s appearance on the Pro-government Facebook page last week.
He then turned his attention to the grandson of Zia, who lived in exile in London, told her listeners that 26-year “could not sleep at night without sleeping with black men”.
Broadcast footage collects more than five million views in three days and is widely condemned, with a group of students burning statues at Dhaka Elit University.
Intensive protests after online publications from those who claimed telephone conversations containing recording minister threatened to drag the popular film actress Mahia Mahi to a five-star hotel and raped it.
Mahi said the recording was authentic in the video published to the Facebook page.
“I am very embarrassed that day, and today I’m embarrassed again.
This has been underestimated in front of my countryman,” he said.
Hassan announced his resignation in a letter on Tuesday “quoted a personal cause”, Ministry of Information spokesman Mohammad Gias Uddin told AFP by telephone.
The powerful representative of the Wami League Obaidul Quader said Tuesday that the Prime Minister Hasina had personally requested Hassan’s resignation.
The opposition Nationalist Party Bangladesh previously demanded Hassan prosecution for his comments on the grandson of his leader.
“We wonder how a community representative and cabinet members can make comments like women-haters and racists,” Tamanna Khan Popy, the head of the feminist group Naripokkho, said in a statement.
AFP cannot contact Hassan to comment.
Hassan stands his comments at first, but then expressed regret.
“I’m sorry if I have done something wrong or if my words have hurt my mother and brother,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
Minister of Bangladesh stopped after Tirade Sexist, the threat of rape
