Misplaced priority
The government has just spent Tk 35 crore to build the Ziaur Rahman Mausoleum Complex. A country that can't feed its people, who are "alive" without getting donation from foreign countries, has just spent Tk 350 million on a person who is dead!
I have absolutely no problem with spending money to honour our freedom fighters like Ziaur Rahman and leaders like Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But I don't think even Ziaur Rahman himself would have approved spending such amount of money for a similar project, considering the number of jobless, homeless and hungry people we have. Also, comparing the money spent on Ziaur Rahman's mausoleum, how much money do we spend in cleaning and maintaining the memorials/graves of people like Kazi Nazrul Islam, Pallikabi Jasimuddin, Jainul Abedin, Dr Muhammad Shahidullah et al?
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