BNP MP Rumeen Farhana revokes application for plot

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) reserved seat MP lawyer Rumeen Farhana on Tuesday revoked the application she had sent to housing and public works ministry seeking an allocation for a 10-katha land.

In a letter sent to the ministry, Rumeen said, “Respecting sentiment of the grassroots leaders and activists of my party, the BNP, I’m revoking the application I had sent [to housing and public works ministry in an official format of the Jatiya Sangsad on 3 August seeking a plot at Purbachal. I’m requesting to take necessary actions in this regard.”

BNP’s media wing member Shairul Kabir Khan has confirmed the matter. “Rumeen’s application has been sent to the ministry.”

Rumeen, BNP assistant international affairs secretary and daughter of Language Movement hero Oli Ahad, applied for the plot in less than two months after she took oath as a member of parliament (MP).

According to the application, which went viral on Facebook, she informed the housing minister that she needs a 10-katha plot in the Purbachal residential area in Dhaka.

Seeking the minister's kind attention over the matter, the BNP’s MP also said she has neither a piece of land or a flat in Dhaka nor any other business rather than advocacy.

Rumeen also stated that she would be grateful forever to the minister if the 10-katha plot is allotted to her name.

As the application went viral on Facebook, it sparked mass criticism on social media, questioning her integrity as she sought the land from the government that she has long been calling as an illegal and immoral one.

Rumeen, however, said she sought the plot from the state, not from the government.

The MP of BNP also said over 300 MPs applied for plots. "But, how did my application get leaked from the ministry?"

She thought the government did it intentionally to hush up the unethical acts by former finance minister AMA Muhith as he imported a vehicle using duty-free facility though he has not been in any post of the state.