BNP dismisses AL allegations
Friday, 5 November 2010
BNP has dismissed Awami League's allegation of late president Ziaur Rahman's involvement in the jail killing.
BNP standing committee members MK Anwar and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy said the ruling party's general secretary's allegations against founder of main opposition BNP Ziaur Rahman being involved with jail killing was 'untrue'.
Mr Anwar, addressing Mr Ashraf, said, "Murderers of the four leaders are around you. HT Imam administered the oath of Khandker Moshtaque. He is now one of the advisors to the Prime Minister."
Roy said, "Zia was not in the chair at that time. He was under house arrest."
Roy also said everyone knows Khaled Musharraf took over control at that time. "Do not confuse the people through falsehood. They understand everything," he said.
They were speaking in two different press conferences at the National Press Club in the city Wednesday.
On this day in 1975, four leaders of the wartime national government-acting president of Bangladesh Syed Nazrul Islam, Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and cabinet ministers M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman-were executed inside Dhaka Central Jail without trial.
The assassins, believed to be the masterminds of the 1975 coup, gunned down the four leaders, just three months after murdering Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975.
BNP standing committee members MK Anwar and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy said the ruling party's general secretary's allegations against founder of main opposition BNP Ziaur Rahman being involved with jail killing was 'untrue'.
Mr Anwar, addressing Mr Ashraf, said, "Murderers of the four leaders are around you. HT Imam administered the oath of Khandker Moshtaque. He is now one of the advisors to the Prime Minister."
Roy said, "Zia was not in the chair at that time. He was under house arrest."
Roy also said everyone knows Khaled Musharraf took over control at that time. "Do not confuse the people through falsehood. They understand everything," he said.
They were speaking in two different press conferences at the National Press Club in the city Wednesday.
On this day in 1975, four leaders of the wartime national government-acting president of Bangladesh Syed Nazrul Islam, Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and cabinet ministers M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman-were executed inside Dhaka Central Jail without trial.
The assassins, believed to be the masterminds of the 1975 coup, gunned down the four leaders, just three months after murdering Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975.