‘Amir Khosru audio’ goes viral

An audio clip of telephone conversations purportedly between senior BNP leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and a young boy about student protests has gone viral on the social media.

The BNP leader was heard spurring the youth, named Naomi from Cumilla, to join forces with the student protesters in Dhaka for the campaign for safe roads. Chowdhury dismissed the audio as fabricated. 

The audio appeared on Facebook at a time when Awami League leaders asserted that BNP was trying to misdirect the student protests.

Sharing the clip on Facebook, the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy commented that the audio was the “direct evidence of BNP’s involvement in these protests”.

Chowdhury, a BNP standing committee member, told bddnews24.com: “The audio is simply made-up for propaganda.”

“Its objective was to weaken the children’s ongoing movement.”

Claiming that the audio was made by the government, Chowdhury said: "People are now aware of the evil tactic by the government. The government fabricated such audios in the past as well and blamed them on BNP leaders.”

“I would like to emphasise that the BNP has supported the logical movement of students as a responsible political party. The attempts to misdirect the protests will go nowhere.”

On the other hand, Joy wrote that Chowdhury instructed activists to bring students to protests and make “more fake posts” on Facebook and other social media.