Journalists must be united in protest

The social welfare minister recently made some abusive remarks about journalists. It is sincerely hoped that people holding honourable position in society will not make any derogatory remarks undermining or insulting a person or a community.

Meanwhile, I was a little disappointed to read in some newspapers that the leaders of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists demanded withdrawal of his abusive remarks. My question is, why a faction? Is it not an issue of protest for the entire journalist community?

Unfortunate but true, one of the reasons for our backwardness in establishing a powerful institution of democracy is our professional division, due to political narrowness.

Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, SAU, Dhaka