Those whoe equate the Awami League and the BNP are ‘frauds,’ Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has said.
The difference between the AL and the BNP is that the AL is not a party of ‘killers’, Joy observed in his Facebook status posted on Wednesday evening.
“It is nothing but their fraudulence who still finds these two parties the same. We are not the same anyway,” Joy wrote.
“I want to make it clear that her (Khaleda Zia) party and her son (Tarique Rahman) had tried to kill my mother,” said Joy.
“My mother has been the Prime Minister twice. An attempt on Khaleda Zia’s life was never made. We stand apart from them clearly by the fact that we are not killers.”
The PM’s US expatriate son has recently returned home for election campaign ahead of the 10th parliamentary election.
Joy also commented on a telephone conversation his mother had with the opposition Chairperson Khaleda Zia. He made the comment on his Facebook page.
“I am sure many of you have heard the telephone conversation between my mother and Khaleda Zia. Apart from Khaleda Zia’s quarrelsome and rude behaviour, there is another matter (in the conversation) that has stunned me.
“She told my mother that the Aug 21 grenade attack made on her was planned by herself. It is the same lies that the BNP had wanted to spread immediately after the attack.
“I want to remind you that the BNP’s Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar is currently in jail on the charge of being involved in this attack.
“The militant leader who had staged the attack, Mufti Hannan, has confessed before the court that the attack was planned at Khaleda’s son Tarique’s office.”
The PM made a telephone call to the opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Saturday and invited her to Ganabhaban for a dialogue over the poll-time government. She also requested Khaleda to call off the 60-hour opposition strike. Khaleda refused to accept any of those requests.
Khaleda, during the telephone conversation, said, “It is you who made the attack, not us. You were behind the grenade attack.”
At least 23 AL activists were killed after a grenade attack on an AL rally on the Bangabadhu Avenue in 2004.
Source: Bd news24