The Central Shaheed Minar has fallen prey to partisan politics of the ruling party, says the BNP, report agencies.
It blamed the Awami League (AL) for the protests against the decision to take Prof Piash Karim's body there.
Speaking at a discussion Saturday, senior party leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said: "How unfortunate we are! A quarter, which is claiming themselves as children of freedom fighters, does not know the true history of the Liberation War.
"We know that the Awami league has introduced the politics of division in this country," he added.
Terming it an "unholy, dirty stinking and stigmatised place", senior journalist Shafik Rehman urged all to refrain from using the Central Shaheed Minar as it has "turned into an Awami Minar."
"I think time has come to ban this scandalous, dirty stinking, and unsacred Shaheed Minar…no gentle citizen should turn up at this place, not before or after one's death," he said.
Shafik Rehman, a pro-BNP intellectual, claimed that it is the ruling Awami League's stigma that has made the central Shaheed Minar a scandalous place. "This Shaheed Minar has now become a minar of Awami autocracy…It's now Awami Minar, not Shaheed Minar," he added.
"No gentle man or innocent person's body should be brought to this Shaheed Minar. I've read in the newspapers that some terrorists declared some citizens unwanted at the place," he said.
He urged people to boycott the Central Shaheed Minar. "You (people) rather join the upcoming movement for establishing a civilised society and democracy in the country."
Shafik also said intensifying a movement to oust the 'criminals' forever will be the timely steps to show the real homage to brave orator Piash Karim.
