The ruling Awami League has clarified a recent remark by Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed following fierce BNP criticism.
The BNP said on Friday that it saw the remark by Sajeeb, better known by his nickname, Joy, the ‘hints of a conspiracy’.
Sanjeeb had said, “I have had information that the Awami League will return to power,” prompting the BNP to sense an element of machination in that assertion.
At a media meet on Saturday, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif clarified that Joy had meant the party would win if its inactive members became active again.
He alleged that the BNP leaders made remarks about Joy that smacked of “political vengeance”. He said the comments were “uncalled for and unfortunate”.
“People will again vote for the Awami League if its inactive activists begin updating the people about the party’s achievements. Joy has got this particular information,” he added.
About the BNP’s criticism of Joy, Hanif said, “Such falsehood is not unexpected of the leaders of a party that is known to be corrupt.”
He also alleged that BNP Chairperson’s elder son Tarique Rahman was ‘conspiring’ abroad.
Speaking at an Iftar arranged by Jubo League on Tuesday, Joy had also blamed Tarique for the deadly grenade attack on an Awami League rally on Aug 21, 2004.
He also alleged the attack had been planned at Hawa Bhaban. “The son of the then Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, had made the plan to kill my mother.”
Tarique is widely believed to have run a government parallel to his mother Khaleda Zia’s from 2001 to 2006 from her erstwhile Hawa Bhaban political office in Gulshan to promote corruption.
Hanif also criticised Khaleda Zia for saying she was determined to introduce a ‘new type of government’ in future. “Although she (Khaleda) did not clarify, she admitted that she had made mistakes governing the country in the past.”
“She did not even express grief over the Aug 21 incident,” he added.
Source: bdnews24
