A ruling Awami League leader has blamed the advisors of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for ‘misguiding’ her.
Presidium member Mohammad Nasim urged the Leader of the Opposition to shun violence and work for peace.
“Your (Khaleda) advisors are misguiding you and for them, the people [of the country] are losing faith on you,” he said on Friday.
Nasim suggested that the BNP chief gets ‘rid of these so called advisors who are harming her’.
The BNP has been claiming that the government had committed ‘genocide’, a term they have often used to describe the killings allegedly by the law enforcers, on the night of May 5 after Hifazat-e Islam’s rally in the capital’s Motijheel and blamed the ruling party of ‘concealing’ the bodies.
On May 7 and 8, the party enforced a countrywide general strike protesting against what they termed as ‘genocide’ and demanding proper and neutral probe into the incident.
BNP Standing Committee member Moudud Ahmed has threatened to move the United Nations if the government does not form a judicial probe commission.
Nasim, a former Home Minister, said the Hifazat had failed to do achieve whatever they tried by creating anarchy and claimed the ‘crisis’ was addressed successfully without any bloodshed.
“We are for peace … on the way to [national] election. Please follow the path to peace shunning the politics of confrontation,” he said in an apparent address to Khaleda.
State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam, present at the programme, said the government would not allow any future rallies at Shapla Chattar or Motijheel.
He claimed the opposition had been orchestrating violence in the name of shutdowns and warned the government would go ‘hard-line’ to secure people’s lives and properties.
Source: Bd news24
