Advocate Shamsul Huque Tuku, MP, the newly elected deputy speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad; has said that the tobacco industry tactics hinders the move to amendment to the tobacco control law.
“The tobacco companies are confusing policymakers in various ways. We have to overcome all the challenges as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared to make Bangladesh tobacco-free by 2040. So, we have to make amendment to the tobacco control law without delay,” he said.
The deputy speaker said these while a delegation of anti-tobacco activists, led by Tobacco Control and Research Cell (TCRC) of Dhaka International University, paid a curtesy call him at his office in Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka on Thursday (September 8).
The members of the delegation team are TCRC’s project director and DIU’s associate professor Md Bazlur Rahman, advisor at Development Activities of Society (DAS) Aminul Islam Bakul, head of program (TC and NCD) at Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB Trust) Syeda Anonna Rahman, TCRC’s project manager Farhana Zaman Liza, project officer at DU’s Bureau of Economic Research (BER) Ibrahim Khalil and project officer of WBB Trust Arif Hasan.
The TCRC delegation congratulated Advocate Shamsul Huque Tuku with a bouquet for being elected as deputy speaker of the Parliament.