Local BNP leaders framed in Nasirnagar Hindu attack, claims BNP's Rizvi

BNP has denounced the police investigation report over the Nasirnagar Hindu attack as 'fabricated.'

Senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi claimed that police have brought false accusations against two local leaders in a ‘false and fabricated’ investigation report.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Rizvi said it was an attempt to save police and local Awami League MPs, who he claimed were behind the attacks.

He said that police have included the names of the party's two leaders of Nasirnagar along with 18 other Awami League leaders in the report filed on Monday.

“We reject this false and fabricated report outright,” said the BNP senior joint secretary general.

An unruly mob ransacked 15 temples and more than a hundred homes of Hindus in Brahmanbarhia’s Nasirnagar Upazila on Oct 30 following a Facebook post ‘insulting’ Islam.

Two locals including one priest filed two cases over the attacks accusing around 1200 unidentified people.

bdnews24.com investigations revealed that local turf war between Nasirnagar MP and Fisheries Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque and Brahmanbarhia district unit AL President and MP Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury had led to the attacks.

Five days into the attack, a mob turned on to Hindus in Nasirnagar again on Nov 4, torching houses and temples.

On Nov 13, unidentified attackers set fire to fishing nets in a house of a Hindu fisherman.