Awami League (AL) leaders were involved in the 1975 killings of the four national leaders at the Dhaka Central Jail, BNP leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy has alleged.
“The four leaders were killed at the prison in 1975. We do not support such murders. Awami League leaders were in power at that time. Its leader Rashed Mosharraf’s brother General Khaled Mosharraf was at the helm and Ziaur Rahman was in confinement then,” he told a rally organised by the party’s youth front, Juba Dal on Tuesday.
On Nov 3, 1975, four leaders of the wartime national government—acting President Syed Nazrul Islam, Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and Cabinet ministers M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman—were brutally killed inside the Dhaka Central Jail.
He brushed away allegations made by AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday that BNP founder Ziaur Rahman ordered the killings. “Zia was in confinement then and the then leaders of the Awami league were in power.”
Goyeshwar claimed that it was Ziaur Rahman who brought Sheikh Hasina back to Bangladesh.
“Ziaur Rahman’s took initiatives to bring back Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh. Upon his orders the defunct Awami League once again came to politics. But going by Awami League’s fascist activities now, it seems Zia’s initiatives were a wrong move,” he said.
Source: Bd news24
