BNP hits back at Hasina for remarks against Zia

Hitting back at the Prime Minister for her remark that Ziaur Rahman was involved in Bangabandhu murder, BNP on Tuesday said Sheikh Hasina has brought the false allegation in a bid to divert people’s attention to a different direction from her government’s ‘failure and misrule’. Addressing a press conference in the city, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also said there is a question in public minds whether there was any correlation between Sheikh Hasina’s homecoming on May 17 in 1981 and the assassination of then president Ziaur Rahman on May 30 that year. ‘The Prime Minister has come up with the baseless issue at a time when her government is mired with failure to ensure the rule of law and control the law and order, when people’s lives have turned miserable due to unabated killings, abductions and forced disappearance. It’s the PM’s ill-effort to divert people’s attention to a different direction,” he alleged. The BNP spokesman further said, ‘We’re not surprised at all at her irresponsible and false comment as it’s her natural way of talking. People are also familiar with her falsehood and attitude. We condemn and strongly protest her unfounded comment involving Ziaur Rahman,’ according to a news agency.