Nasim stresses on unity within 14-Party Alliance

The enemies of the 14-Party Alliance will see as advantage any sign of disunity in the ruling coalition, convener Mohammed Nasim has said.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 15 June 2016, 02:41 PM
Updated : 15 June 2016, 04:17 PM

He said Sheikh Hasina, chief of the Awami League which heads the alliance, has instructed the leaders to stay united amid a debate sparked by a recent remark by the ruling party’s General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam. 

Nasim, also the health minister, was speaking at a meeting at an Awami League meeting at the Bangabandhu Avenue on Wednesday.

“Evil forces will seep through the cracks to stab us if we don’t unite,” he said.

Syed Ashraf at a recent event attacked Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, saying the Awami League will have to forever regret making the JaSoD leader a minister, while criticising the role played by his party in the years following Bangladesh’s liberation.

Mahbub-Ul Alam Hanif, who was at the meeting on Wednesday, said Ashraf was addressing an event by Bangladesh Chhatra League, Awami League’s student wing, and the anti-JaSoD remarks were made to describe history.  

Syed Ashraf said the JaSoD, which was formed as the result of a split in Bangladesh Chhatra League just after independence, made the ground for the massacre of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family in 1975.

The killing of the nation’s founder in August also led to the murder of four national leaders, among them Ashraf’s father Syed Nazrul Islam, at Dhaka Central Jail in November, 1975.   

Nasim, whose father M Monsur Ali was also among them, stressed on unity within alliance when it approaches a countrywide programme against targeted killings scheduled for Jun 19.

As for Ashraf’s comments, he said: “Sheikh Hasina is the chief leader of the 14-Party Alliance. She had inspired our unity and will remain as its symbol.”

Unity was also important if the country was to avoid a repeat of the dark chapter like that of 1975, he said.