Prime minister’s information technology adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Friday termed BNP ‘a party of Razakars’.
‘Are those who do politics with Razakars not Razakars?’ he asked, adding, ‘BNP is a party of Razakars.’
The Prime Minister’s son was addressing a discussion on the ‘Spirit of Liberation War: democracy, development and good governance’ organised by Shuchinta Foundation at Hotel Radisson in the city.
‘If they [BNP] wanted to prove they are not Razakars, they would have to come out of the alliance [with Jamaat],’ he said.
Joy questioned whether those who support war criminals could believe in the spirit of the Liberation War and whether someone who brought back Razakars could ever be a freedom fighter.
He said former president Ziaur Rahman brought back the Razakars to independent Bangladesh.
The PM’s IT advisor urged people to keep Awami League in power for completion of the trial of war crimes suspects and execution of the sentences against them.
‘The war crimes trial is going on now. The trial will continue and the sentences will be executed as long as AL is in power. So those who believe in the spirit of Liberation War should be kept in power,’ Joy said.
Criticising those who write editorials on the government’s mistakes and shortcomings, he said that ‘huge’ development work had been completed in the past five years and said it couldn’t have been better.
‘We are human beings, we are not magicians,’ he said.
He said Bangladesh would never to an undeveloped state as there had been ‘huge’ development in the past five years, while the same would follow over the next five years.
Joy said the country was now politically stable and AL had managed to ‘restore democracy.’
Talking about the 43-year delay in starting the war crimes trial, he said there were ‘conspiracies’ in the country and said the conspirators were among those who came to power after August 15, 1975, the day of assassination of country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with most of his family members.
He said those who were in power after 1975 carried out propaganda by changing history and teaching fabricated history in educational institutions, as a part of their long term plan to wipe out the ‘real’ history from students’ minds. He likened them infamous Nazi official Joseph Goebbels.
Moderated by Suchinta Foundation convener Mohammad A Arafat, the discussion was also addressed by Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation chairman Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, artist Hashem Khan and prosecutor Tureen Afroz, among others.
Source: Newage