Khaleda\\\'s statement full of blatant lies: Hanif

FE Team | Published: March 14, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

The ruling Awami League termed on Friday the statement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia as 'full of blatant lies', reports BSS.
Speaking at a press conference at the political office of Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina at Dhanmondi in the city, joint general secretary of the ruling party Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said, "It's natural that those who were born in the politics through killings and conspiracies would resort to falsehood. They have still been resorting to falsehood."
The Awami League convened the press conference to give impromptu reaction to reporters over the statement of BNP chairperson delivered at a city press conference at her Gulshan office on Friday.
Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif alleged that Khaleda Zia tried to snatch away people's voting rights by thwarting the January 5 national polls of 2014 unleashing terrorist activities throughout the country.
"At her instruction, the cadres of BNP-Jamaat-led 20-party combine started killing people and they attacked and torched a number of educational institutions to foil the parliamentary polls then," he added.
The Awami League joint general secretary said, "Khaleda Zia did not participate in the national polls of 2014 as her ally Jamaat was not eligible to take part in the election. BNP and Jamaat are friends of each other. How could she participate in the polls without her friend? She has now been killing people of the country unleashing violent activities as she could not take part in the polls to appease her friend (Jamaat)."
"No dialogue with those violence-mongers," Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said adding, "There is no political crisis in the country now. What has now been taking place in the country can't be termed political crisis. Some sort of violent activities have been going on now. Khaleda Zia can't avoid, in any way, the responsibilities of the acts of subversion for over the past 67 days." For the subversive acts, the AL leader said that Khaleda Zia and leaders and activists of her party must face trial.