Minister's badmouthing disgraceful

This is not the first time that the minister for social welfare has come into news for all the wrong reasons. His latest act of utter impropriety has caused discontent among local officials including the police administration in Moulivibazar. We are shocked to learn that the minister allegedly called some senior officials 'bastards', hurled abuse at police for corruption and made unprintable disparaging remarks about female students of two universities. This sort of behaviour is not only unbecoming of a minister, it is downright condemnable.

Officers in Charge of police stations were made to stand and another member of a law enforcement agency was derided for not removing his cap in the minister's presence. This goes to show the minister's complete lack of official decorum and his feudalistic mindset. If the minister had definite information about 'corruption' against any law enforcer there are ways to deal with the matter.

Given eyewitness accounts of what happened in the monthly law and order meeting of the district, we feel that the behaviour of the minister has hurt the dignity and morale of officials. Rather than publicly degrading the administrative and law enforcement officials, he could have called for an explanation in a manner befitting his position. This is no way to behave and if anyone needed to be held to account for misdemeanour, it appears to be the minister himself.