Awami League leaders have alleged that the BNP chief and her son have both fled to London to avoid trial and skip punishment in August 21 grenade attack case and other corruption cases.
The ruling party leaders also claimed that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman were now planning to bring Tarique’s wife Zubaida Rahman into BNP’s politics and make her the party’s new chief.
Addressing a discussion organised by pro-AL organisation Nagarbashi, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said: “BNP chief Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique are both convicted of several graft cases; that is why they escaped to London to avoid trial. For this reason the mother and son have planned to make Zubaida as the party chief.”
“They [Khaleda and Tarique] have conspired 19 times, but failed every time, to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Now the mother and son are conspiring again from London,” the minister told the programme at the capital’s National Press Club.
Speaking as the chief guest, Awami League Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said: “The country’s development is going properly. But after failed conspiracies inside the country, the BNP chairperson and her son have started to conspire again after fleeing to London.”
The BNP was now trying to convince India to come to power, Hasan Mahmud claimed, but added that the party would fail in their goal because of their anti-India stance and support for terrorists and militants.
Meanwhile, responding to such allegations, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir snubbed “baseless” rumours about Khaleda fleeing to London.
“It is a baseless speculation that our chairperson may not return home soon from London. Speculation is a great problem in Bangladesh which sometimes buries the truth,” he told reporters at Dhaka airport yesterday after his return from Singapore.
The BNP spokesperson added that Khaleda Zia
Source: Dhaka Tribune
