Bangladesh Parliament May Shorten Sessions For World Cup

tiger_man · #1 June 19, 2006, 05:35 AM

i dont know how u guyz may react to this but honestly i had a good laugh at it when i first read it....

i got angry when i first read students postponing exam coz of WC, now MPs are cutting their parliament sessions for it aswell.....

this shows that ppl in our government prioritise their WC infatuation over the interested of the country, for which this poor country is paying this morons for...

DHAKA, June 19 (Reuters) - The speaker of the Bangladesh parliament may cut sessions short so that soccer-crazy politicians can follow the World Cup on television.
"I shall consider (the proposal) so that members can watch the World Cup matches," acting speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiki told the house while presiding over a session on Sunday night.
The acting speaker had been responding to a plea by a treasury bench member who said most of his colleagues in parliament were eager to see matches of their favourite teams.
Brazil was playing Australia in Germany when parliament was in session on Sunday.

Opposition members also requested the speaker to instruct the relevant electricity supply department to ensure uninterrupted power supply across the country during matches.
Soccer fans have attacked and vandalised various local supply offices after power-cuts during matches.
Bangladesh failed to qualify for the World Cup finals, but millions of soccer fans in the country stay up late at night to watch on television.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...BANGLADESH.XML

Baundule · #2 June 19, 2006, 07:41 AM

so, what? Why

tiger_man · #3 June 19, 2006, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Baundule
so, what? Why

the whole country is riddled with poverty, corruption, lack of education, lawlessness nd those morons who elected by ppl to do the job of restructuring the country are sitting on their *** watching world cup...doesnt that strike as adnormal to u??

i cant imagine tony blair or john howard or george bush cutting short the parliament session to watch the world cup.....

thebest · #4 June 19, 2006, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by tiger_man
i cant imagine tony blair or john howard or george bush cutting short the parliament session to watch the world cup.....

Because they have more important works like looting Iraq, killing innocent people.:p

Joking aside, in Bangladesh presidential system exist though in paper it is parlamentary. so no harm would be done.

Rabz · #5 June 19, 2006, 09:17 AM

i reckon cuttin the parliament session is a good idea..
it costs a huge amount of money to keep the parliament running ( electricity, maintenance etc etc) every time we've got a session..
n what does our beloved politicians do ?
basically warm up the seat, shout at each other, pointless walk-out, just filling enough quota to keep one session going etc etc..

better use that supply of electricity to help ppl watch the games...

it doesnt make any difference to our economical or political developement with the parliament sessions..

Baundule · #6 June 19, 2006, 09:21 AM

Thx, Sydney. Exactly what I wanted to say.

allrounder · #7 June 19, 2006, 09:36 AM

what good do they do in the parliament anyway.

tiger_man · #8 June 19, 2006, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Sydney
i reckon cuttin the parliament session is a good idea..
it costs a huge amount of money to keep the parliament running ( electricity, maintenance etc etc) every time we've got a session..
n what does our beloved politicians do ?
basically warm up the seat, shout at each other, pointless walk-out, just filling enough quota to keep one session going etc etc..

better use that supply of electricity to help ppl watch the games...

it doesnt make any difference to our economical or political developement with the parliament sessions..

i guess u got a point there....
but on the otherhand it makes a mockery of us....but hell, we dont have any reputation anywhere anyway.....bangladesh is more consecutive in getting 'most corrupt nation' award than ashraful scoring over 50 in consecutive games..

Rabz · #9 June 21, 2006, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by tiger_man
i guess u got a point there....
but on the otherhand it makes a mockery of us....but hell, we dont have any reputation anywhere anyway

making a mockery of us ?? he he..man u r funny

as if we havent bn mocked enough... lol
mate.. i don think the rest of the world gives a flying toss if the parliament in BD shorten its session due to WC..

keep up the good work politicians..