Dhaka, Jan. 27 -- If the four-party alliance government was corrupt, then why did Jamaat-e-Islami's two top leaders never resign at the time? Tarique Rahman has raised the question, challenging Jamaat's present-day criticism of the BNP.

On Tuesday, he referred to a particular political party, pointing towards Jamaat, saying it is acting in "exactly the same way the 'autocrat' used to speak".

"You must have seen in the newspapers that right now a political party is using the language of the autocrat who has fled, attacking the BNP. it too is now claiming that the BNP was the champion of corruption."

"So my question is, from 2001 to 2006 didn't they also have two members in the BNP government? They did. So if the BNP was really that bad,...