A section of civil society is plotting to grab power, says Joy

Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has alleged that a section of the civil society is conspiring to grab power by encouraging violence under the guise of political programmes.

In a Facebook post on Thursday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son described the activities of the civil society members as ‘treason’ and demanded their arrest and trial.

Joy, also the ICT adviser to the prime minister, said: “’Civil society’ leader Mahmudur Rahman Manna in a phone conversation recommends opposition kill a few people inside the Dhaka University so that the government is destabilised.”

“The Daily Star prints a half page copy of a poster by banned terrorist outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir urging army soldiers to overthrow the government and seize power,” he added.

Joy said it was another conspiracy by ‘the so-called civil society’ to foist unconstitutional authority on the people.

“Manna in his conversation names Kamal Hossain as a part of this plot. Manna, Kamal Hossain and Daily Star’s Editor Mahfuz Anam are the same people who openly urged the military to stay in power indefinitely after 1/11,” he added.

Joy continued, “These are the people who want power but have never been elected even in a single constituency without the backing of one of the major political parties.”

Taking advantage of the ‘BNP-Jamaat’s arson attacks’ over the past two months on civilians, he said, the same people had been falsely trying to claim both parties were involved in violence.

“The Daily Star has written one false story after another about fake Chhattra League bombers, all of which have been refuted. Yet no one of them has demanded that BNP-Jamaat stop their violence.”

The prime ministerial adviser claimed that the civil society members wanted the violence to continue and ‘indeed wanted’ to help the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami kill more people.

“They want to blame our Awami League government no matter what so that they can ride the army’s coattails back to power just like 1/11.

“This is treason. They should all be arrested and tried,” he said.

The installation of army-backed caretaker government, led by Fakhurddin Ahmed, on Jan 11, 2007 is referred to as 1/11.