Minister, State Minister go Missing
Seminar remains a non-starter
Without notifying the designated participants and guests, the ruling Awami League postponed a seminar it was scheduled to hold yesterday as a minister and a state minister could not attend it.
According to Ashim Kumar Ukil, a central Awami League leader and one of the organisers, neither Post and Telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju nor State Minister for Science and Technology Yeafesh Osman could attend the programme.
The dozen or so guests, including several government employees, party activists, journalists and a ruling lawmaker found the doors of the seminar's venue, Cirdap auditorium, locked at 3:00pm, the scheduled starting time of the seminar.
Several guests waited as over an hour went by with no representative of the organisers around to provide any notice or announcement confirming whether the seminar had been cancelled or postponed.
The seminar, on “digital Bangladesh” and the advancements in the ICT sector in the last three years, is part of the ruling party's ongoing programmes to disseminate the government's achievements.
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