BNP slams PM’s grenade attack remarks
Dhaka, Aug 22 (UNB) - Dismissing the recent remarks of the Prime Minister and Awami League leaders that Khaleda and her son Tarique Rahman were involved in the August 21 grenade attack, opposition BNP on Wednesday said they are making such statements to gain political interest out of it.
“The recent remarks of the Prime Minister and ruling party leaders involving Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman in the August 21 grenade attack are politically motivated. They’re carrying out such propaganda to divert people’s attention from their failures,” said BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
He was talking to reporters at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office.
The briefing was arranged to protest the recent remarks of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and ruling party leaders, including Syed Ahraful Islam, involving the BNP chief and the vice-chairman in the August 21 grenade attack.
On August 21, 2004, the grenade attack was made on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital, leaving 24 AL leaders and workers killed and 300 others injured.
The gruesome attack was aimed at assassinating Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, the then leader of the opposition.
The premier and her party colleagues at a programme marking the anniversary of the deadly attack held Khaleda and her eldest son Tarique Rahman responsible for the gruesome incident.
Protesting the remarks, Rizvi said all that the Prime Minister and the AL leaders saying are a lie. “They’re spreading the stream of vengeance... we’re strongly protesting the remarks as those are unacceptable.”
“The inclusion of the name of Tarique Rahman in the supplementary charge sheets has manifested the government’s intention to gain political interest out of it. It’s the AL men who had carried out the grenade attack to put BNP into a trouble,” he added.
He alleged that though the then BNP-led four-party alliance government had taken all the necessary steps, including opening judicial inquiry, to unearth the mystery behind the grenade attack, AL did not help in this regard.
Claiming that no BNP leader and activist was involved in the grenade attack, he called for a neutral and proper trial of those involved in the heinous incident. Rizvi also slammed the government for arresting Jamaat-e-Islami acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam.
“The recent remarks of the Prime Minister and ruling party leaders involving Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman in the August 21 grenade attack are politically motivated. They’re carrying out such propaganda to divert people’s attention from their failures,” said BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
He was talking to reporters at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office.
The briefing was arranged to protest the recent remarks of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and ruling party leaders, including Syed Ahraful Islam, involving the BNP chief and the vice-chairman in the August 21 grenade attack.
On August 21, 2004, the grenade attack was made on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital, leaving 24 AL leaders and workers killed and 300 others injured.
The gruesome attack was aimed at assassinating Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, the then leader of the opposition.
The premier and her party colleagues at a programme marking the anniversary of the deadly attack held Khaleda and her eldest son Tarique Rahman responsible for the gruesome incident.
Protesting the remarks, Rizvi said all that the Prime Minister and the AL leaders saying are a lie. “They’re spreading the stream of vengeance... we’re strongly protesting the remarks as those are unacceptable.”
“The inclusion of the name of Tarique Rahman in the supplementary charge sheets has manifested the government’s intention to gain political interest out of it. It’s the AL men who had carried out the grenade attack to put BNP into a trouble,” he added.
He alleged that though the then BNP-led four-party alliance government had taken all the necessary steps, including opening judicial inquiry, to unearth the mystery behind the grenade attack, AL did not help in this regard.
Claiming that no BNP leader and activist was involved in the grenade attack, he called for a neutral and proper trial of those involved in the heinous incident. Rizvi also slammed the government for arresting Jamaat-e-Islami acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam.
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