“The US State Department are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and her ICT affairs advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy made this comment in a status in his verified Facebook page.
He criticised the expulsion of two black minority US state lawmakers, sparing a white one, in Tennessee over their gun control protests, questioning the fairness of democracy in the United States.
“US State legislature votes to expel two minority lawmakers, while keeping a third who was white. This is the state of democracy in the US. The US State Department are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites,” Joy said in his Facebook status on Saturday.
Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to expel Justin Jones and fellow lawmaker Justin Pearson, who are both Black, for speaking out of turn during a gun control protest in the House chamber the week prior.
Republican Gloria Johnson, a white lawmaker too participated in the demonstration, faced an expulsion vote that ultimately failed.
Jones later vowed he would seek re-election for his Nashville seat, calling his removal an attack on democracy.
Republicans voted to expel Jones and his fellow Democratic colleague Pearson for leading a gun control protest on 30 March.
