BNP's politics is based on complete lies, says Hasan

CHATTOGRAM, Aug 27 (BSS): Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr. Hasan Mahmud on Friday said BNP's politics is based on complete lies and falsehood.

He also requested BNP to come out of this politics, saying that politics of lies and falsehood cannot last long and this is the lesson of history.

The information minister made the comments while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion meeting organized at Bangabandhu Hall of Chattogram Press Club.

Chattogram North District Unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) organized the discussion meeting in memory of the victims of August 15 carnage of 1975 and August 21 grenade attack of 2004.

Dr Hasan said Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the truth yesterday that there was no body of Ziaur Rahman at Chandrima Udyan.

Referring to BNP's clash with police at Chandrima Udyan, the information minister questioned why the party engaged in clashes with the police when they know Ziaur Rahman's body was not in the grave there.

Soon after the Prime Minister's comments, BNP General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made a statement to save his post in the party, Hasan said.

"I am the man of Rangunia upazila of the district. Ziaur Rahman was first buried in Pomra Union under the upazila. No one saw Ziaur Rahman to be buried there, they saw a box. The eyewitness of that day is Qutub Uddin, the current UP chairman of that union. He also told me that we did not see Zia. Even in the so-called first grave, no one actually saw Ziaur Rahman's body," he added.

Not even Khaleda Zia, Tareq Zia and Justice Sattar could say that they ever saw Zia's body (in the box that was taken from Chattogram) as a bullet-hit body can easily be recognized. Actually, none saw Zia's body in the box, he said.

Dr. Hasan Mahmud further said BNP leaders have been constantly denying Bangabandhu's role. "They (BNP) try to make Zia, a villain, into a hero," he added.

BCL north district unit President Tanvir Hossain Chowdhury Tapur presided over the meeting while north district AL President and Zilla Parishad Chairman MA Salam, its General Secretary Sheikh Mohammad Ataur Rahman, AL leaders Swajan Kumar Talukder, Debashish Palit, Jasim Uddin Shah, Shahjahan Sikder, Nazrul Islam Talukder and Idris Azgar, among others, addressed the function.

Dr Hasan said that there were many attempts to belittle Bangabandhu after his assassination on 15 August in 1975.

They (conspirators) even wanted to erase the name of Bangabandhu from history, but the name is now internationally recognised, he said.