Iajuddin mentally sick: wife
Staff Correspondent
New Age
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Professor Anwara Begum, wife of former president Iajuddin Ahmed, on Tuesday claimed he had been physically and mentally sick.
She said this in a statement explaining his joining a programme aired by private television channel Banglavision on May 24.
In the signed statement, she said two Banglavision officials, accompanied by Iajuddin's former student Dr Kabir Hossain Talukder, had visited Iajuddin's house at Gulshan and wanted to interview Iajuddin as an 'educationist.'
'I expressed his inability as Dr Iajuddin Ahmed is physically and mentally sick,' Anwara Begum said.
Iajuddin Ahmed is undergoing treatment under retired colonel Dr Nurul Azim as he has been 'physically and mentally sick for last two months,' she said.
'We went to the Banglavision office after their [Banglavision officials and Kabir Hossain Talukder's] request and I was waiting outside [the office],' she said. 'During this time, the former president was intentionally misguided by motivated questions on "untoward incidents" of the country and not on his educational life. He [Iajuddin] cannot recall what he said in reply to the questions as he was almost imbalanced physically and mentally.'
She said it was a conspiracy to push the former president into an unwarranted situation to belittle him before the people.
She urged the government to try the persons involved in the incident.
When asked about the statement of Professor Anwara Begum, Kazi Jesin, who hosted the programme, Point of Order, on Banglavision, said they (Iajuddin and Anwara) had visited the television channel office on their own. 'We did not force them to come here.'
She said the former president agreed to talk about his educational and working life. 'But he requested us not to take up "so much of talks on 1/11 [proclamation of the state of emergency on January 11, 2007] as [former] president.'
Jesin said how Professor Anwara allowed her 'mentally imbalanced' husband to talk on education, forget about the promulgation of the state of emergency, in a television programme.
In the programme, Iajuddin said the declaration of the state of emergency and his subsequent resignation from the post of the chief adviser on January 11, 2007 was the result of 'Allah's will.'
When asked whether he was under pressure and anything [written] was placed before him for the declaration of the state of emergency when the chiefs of the three services [army, air force and navy] visited him in Bangabhaban before the proclamation of emergency, Iajuddin simply replied, 'I agreed with them.'
When asked about the detention of politicians, including Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, without any warrant of arrest, and the cases filed against them by the Anti-Corruption Commission, he said, 'Nothing that happened was unknown to me.'
Iajuddin Ahmed on January 11, 2007 declared a state of emergency, suspending fundamental rights and indefinitely delaying the elections to the ninth Jatiya Sangsad, which was earlier scheduled for January 22.
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