BNP spreading falsehood out of frustration: AL

Awami League (AL) leader Dr Hasan Mahmud Thursday said BNP has been distorting history only to get rid of frustration for not participating in the 10th parliamentary polls, reports UNB.
"They're spreading falsehoods out of frustration as they've made a mistake by boycotting the January 5 election. This is neither good for Khaleda Zia nor Tarique Rahman to deny the country's history. It's a historic fact that Bangladesh wouldn't have emerged as an independent country had there been no Bangabandhu," he said.
The AL publicity and publication secretary said this while addressing a press conference at the party president's Dhanmondi political office in the city. The press conference was convened to give reply to the statement of BNP's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman.
At a views exchange programme held in London Tuesday, Tarique claimed that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had become prime minister 'illegally' in 1972.
Hasan Mahmud, also a former minister, said, "I think it's tantamount to sedition to lie with an established fact. BNP is making such unrealistic speeches only to hit headlines."
Mentioning that the higher court declared illegal the rule of Ziaur Rahman, he said, "They're creating a controversy over history for no reason. The politics of BNP is based on lying. They are talking rubbish being alienated from the people of the country."
It is natural for a party the birth of which is illegal to distort history, the AL leader said.
Those who believe that Ziaur Rahman was the first President of the country they deny Bangladesh's long struggle for independence, he added.