Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has described BNP founder and late President Ziaur Rahman as the fourth Mir Zafar of history.
‘Mir Jafar’ is a historical figure whose a name has become synonymous with “treachery”, and Inu has bracketed Ziaur Rahman with him, accusing the former President and BNP founder of betraying Bangladesh’s history and its Constitution after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975.
Inu, also the President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JaSaD), was talking to reporters after visiting a mazar (shrine) at Bheramara Upazila in Kushtia district on Friday.
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“Ziaur Rahman knew that people had spontaneously participated in the Liberation War under the leadership of Bangabandhu and that he had taken part in the war as a Sector Commander under the provisional government formed (on April 10, 1971) with Bangabandhu as its President.”
Even after the Liberation War, Inu said, Zia had served as an army officer under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s government. “But after the assassination of Bangabandhu, the scenario changed as Zia tampered with the Constitution and history of Bangladesh.”
Inu termed Zia as the country’s ‘Mir Jafar’ No. 4 and “traitor”.
He claimed that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, wife of Ziaur Rahman, had tried every means to cover up her husband’s ‘treachery’.
The Information Minister also criticised Khaleda Zia’s political activities, saying she would not be able to shrug off the sensational Chittagong arms haul case, August 21 grenade attacks, and corruption charges.
He visited the shrine of Hajrat Solayman Shah Chishti (Ra) at Gopalnagar under Bheramara Upazila at noon.
Kushtia district unit JSD President Golam Mohasin, General Secretary of the party Abdul Alim Swapon, Additional Police Superintendent Sohel Reza, Mirpur Upazila’s Assistant Commissioner (Land) Siarazum Munira and others were present there.
Source: Bd news24