The BNP has said the Awami League will be washed away when its Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman will come back home.
Spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the statement on Sunday at a meeting organised in the city in protest against a remark of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy that Tarique had masterminded the Aug 21 grenade attack in 2004 to kill his mother.
He said: “The the ruling quarter’s propaganda (against Tarique) will be of no use. The Awami League will be washed away by a mass upsurge once he (Tarique) returns home.”
BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique has been an accused in the supplementary chargesheet in a case over the grisly attack on an Awami League rally in the city where Hasina, then the opposition leader, was the chief guest.
Twenty-four people, including party’s central leader Ivy Rahman, were killed and over 300 injured in the attack.
Fakhrul said at the Sunday’s meeting: “Being the son of former President Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia isn’t Tarique’s only identity. This leader who has emerged from the grassroots pursues positive politics.”
He claimed that the remarks of Joy on the Aug 21 grenade attack case were tantamount to ‘contempt of court’.
BNP Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu said: “Tarique Rahman will get well soon and return home… Bangladesh will assume a different look on that day. Millions will greet him at the airport.”
Tarique has been in London since Sept 11, 2008 when he flew there for medical treatment following his released on parole in several cases.
Party Vice-President Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who presided over the meeting, said: “Joy has done us a favour by saying he has information that the Awami League will come to power again. Now it is clear that they’re plotting over the next election.”
BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed alleged that the government was trying to soil Tarique “failing to prove anything against him in the case”.
Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said: “The BNP will never accept the fact that US resident Joy can come home but Tarique can’t.”
Source: UNBConnect
The ironic lesson of history is that nobody learns from history. How does a responsible leader like Mr. Alamgir say so? Has he forgotten his party’s shameful defeat in the last general election? Have they ever taken the trouble to dig into the causes of their tragic setback? The issues they have been struggling with against AL were not absent during their tenure. How can they be sure that people have forgotten everything they did and have become impatient to set them on the throne without least reservation? Really astonishing!