No trace of the former Minister of Science and Technology

There is no trace of the recently ex-Minister of Science and Technology Architect Yeafesh Osman. However, there is no evidence in the airport records that he has left the country recently. Every time I call him, I get a return message saying 'Unable to connect at this moment'.

According to a source, he is hiding at a relative's house. Looking for a safe way to emigrate.

Three days after the 12th National Assembly elections, Awami League formed the government for the fourth consecutive time under the leadership of party president Sheikh Hasina. However, Hasina secretly fled the country signing a resignation to the President amid the countrywide upsurge made by the students and people. Although, she tried till her last moment in the office to prolong the power what she occupied in the name of vote despite her continuous misgovernance and insulting the new generation terming them as ‘Rajakars’. Besides her, several other ministers also left the country in the same way. However, while going to Delhi, former Minister of State for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak was arrested on Tuesday at the airport.

Then comes the name of architect Yeafesh Osman, the former science and technology minister, who was lucky enough to become a minister in the technocrat quota. This son of fiction writer Shaukat Osman was quite talked about by writing poems about Bangabandhu and reading them at various events. Many appreciated him more as a meeting poet than as a science minister. However, General Secretary of Bangladesh Institute of Architects Yeafesh Osman has been much discussed and criticized for Rooppur nuclear power project in various formats. But he was criticized the most for snapping at journalists for asking questions about the Rooppur nuclear power plant.