'Why don't you burn your wives' Indian sarees?' Bangladesh PM slams oppn's boycott calls 

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came down heavily on the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders running an anti-India campaign. She said the BNP leaders who are raising this boycott call have been the primary consumers of Indian spices and their wives have been using Indian sarees.

"This is my question to those leaders who are talking about boycotting Indian products. Their wives have some beautiful Indian sarees. Why don't they take those sarees and burn them? Why don't you ask this to BNP leaders whose wives have Indian sarees? I know many BNP leaders who when in power went to India to buy sarees and sell them back here.

The boycott calls are being raised by the opposition leaders who allege Indian interference in Bangladesh's internal affairs. The prime minister's remarks came after BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi threw away his Kashmiri shawl on the road as a symbolic protest against Indian products, according to The Daily Star.