BNP's politics of propaganda erasing Liberation War memories
Speakers tell AL webinar
Sunday, 24 April 2022
Speakers at a webinar said BNP has been letting off volleys of lies in the political sphere to delete people's memories about the struggle for the country's independence, mask their own crimes and seize the state power by any means, reports BSS.
Their spectrum of false narratives covers not just the liberation struggle but the rise of BNP as a political party, the rise of Ziaur Rahman as the president, and even the amendment to BNP's constitution, they remarked.
The observations came through a webinar, organised by the ruling Awami League, titled 'The Saga of Politics: BNP's Politics of Lies Episode 1'.
Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim and journalist Ajoy Dasgupta addressed the webinar moderated by Awami League's Publicity and Publication Deputy Secretary Aminul Islam Amin on Friday night.
Reminiscing the days of heightened tension during the inception of the 1971-Liberation War, Ekushey Award-winning journalist Ajoy Dasgupta said, "The armoured vehicle of the Pakistani armed forces is coming. Bullets are rattling through the area. At that time, Bangabandhu, unperturbed by the diabolic situation, is declaring independence."
On that fateful night, when firings from tanks showed no sign of stopping and the army of Pakistan was at his doorsteps, Bangabandhu conveyed the message of the country's independence to Awami League leaders, administrative officials, and law enforcement agencies.
The news even spread to Chittagong and then the entire world, he said.
On that night, the US department of state said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had declared independence, he mentioned.
Newspapers of India, the UK, and other countries also carried the news while the entire nation set off, through this declaration, on the war against genocide, he added.
But BNP spreads lies about that historic declaration to deny independence, to erase people's memories about the fact that the people of Bangladesh jumped into the Liberation War at the call of Bangabandhu, he said.