Dhaka, Nov. 12 -- seat MP from National Citizen Party (NCP) Nusrat Tabassum has expressed anger over Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed's remarks in Parliament on a fire at her village home in Kushtia, questioning why he had tried to downplay the incident.

"Why did the home minister try to downplay this attack?" she said in a Facebook post.

Nusrat raised the question after the home minister's response to a question from Opposition Chief Whip and NCP Convener Nahid Islam in Parliament earlier in the day.

In response to Nahid's question, Salahuddin said an investigation was underway to determine whether the house had caught fire accidentally or whether someone had deliberately set it ablaze.

He also said no evidence of a petrol bomb explosi...