Awami League (AL) advisory council member and former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta, MP, urged the government Friday to complete the trial of the August 21 grenade attack cases expeditiously, reports BSS.
"As the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister, I think the cases should not take 10 years for completion. I will ask for explanation in the next meeting of the standing committee," he said.
Mr Sengupta, a senior parliamentarian of the ruling AL, said this while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion in the city.
Bangabandhu Academy organised the discussion at the auditorium of the Central Public Library in the capital in observance of the 10th anniversary of August 21 grenade attack.
Adviser of the academy Haji Md Selim, MP, chaired the discussion, also addressed, among others, by Samyabadi Dal central leader Haroon Chowdhury and secretary general of the academy Humayun Kabir Mizi.
Mr Sengupta said, "I will seek explanation from the ministry concerned in the next meeting of the parliamentary standing committee. They (personalities concerned in the ministry) will be invited to the committee and then the trial in the cases of the August 21 grenade attack will be completed expeditiously removing the impediments to the cases in consultation with them."
The senior Awami League leader said, "The masterminds behind the August 21 grenade attack of 2004 were the then Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muzahid. The attack was mounted with a plan to make Awami League bankrupt in leadership."
"The leaders of the four-party alliance cooked up the plan for killing of the then leader of the opposition (Sheikh Hasina) at Hawa Bhaban," Suranjit Sengupta added.
