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AL leader Hanif criticises BNP’s Nazrul for demanding probe into Aug 21 attack
Awami League leader Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif has criticised BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan for demanding ‘proper’ investigation into the Aug 21 attack after ‘misdirecting’ the probe when his party-led government was in power.
Published : 22 August 2015, 01:39 PM
Updated : 22 August 2015, 01:39 PM
In reply to a question on the attack on the 11th anniversary of the incident on Friday, BNP Standing Committee Member Khan said his party wanted justice.
In a discussion at the National Press Club on Saturday, Awami League Joint General Secretary Hanif said BNP men had been named in the cases filed over the attack in 2004 that left 24 killed.
“Now BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan says – ‘we want proper investigation’,” he said.
“Mr Nazrul Islam’s remarks were very good, but where were you then? You helped the attackers flee; staged the Joj Mia drama. Did you forget about the investigation then? Or the investigation was not proper?” Hanif asked.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s son and the party’s Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, former minister and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid are among those accused of planning the attack.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was then the opposition leader, on Friday said Khaleda, too, was involved in the attack.
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Hasina suffered hearing loss in the attack.
“The trial in the case has started because Awami League believes in justice. There is no scope to escape the trial. The fair trial will be conducted through proper investigation,” Hanif on Saturday said.
He also blamed Khaleda’s husband, BNP founder, late president Ziaur Rahman for the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Aug 15, 1975.
He alleged Ziaur Rahman, who fought the Liberation War against Pakistan as a sector commander, was a ‘Pakistani agent’.
“A freedom fighter cannot reinstate the killers of 1975 in the State…Doesn’t it prove that Zia was an agent of Pakistan?” he asked.
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