Book of Khandker unnerves AL: BNP

Claiming that the book ‘1971: Bhetore Baire’ a document against the ruling party’s long-drawn ‘false campaign’, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Friday said the revelation of facts in AK Khandker’s book has triggered fire to Awami League’s body.
“What Deputy Chief of the Liberation Forces AK Khandker has written in his book is true. People believe this.  Now AL’s body has started burning as he (Khandker) unveiled the facts,” he said, according to a news agency.
Fakhrul, the BNP acting secretary general, made the remarks while addressing a milad and doa mahfil at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.
BNP organised the programme marking the 5th death anniversary of its ex-standing committee member and the country's longest-serving finance minister M Saifur Rahman.
In his book ‘1971: Bhetore Baire’ published recently Liberation War hero AK Khandker claimed that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman concluded his historic March 7 speech in 1971 saying ‘joi Pakistan, triggering a fresh controversy.
Outraged by AK Khandker’s remarks, MPs in parliament Thursday demanded that a case be filed against him on sedition charge for ‘distorting history and undermining Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’ in his just-published book.
Apparently reacting to the MPs’ scathing attacks on Khandker, Fakhrul said through the book, ‘1971: Bhetore Baire’, it has been proved Awami League’s long-time claim that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed independence through the address was ‘false’.
He said those, including Tajuddin Ahmed, who had played a vital role in the Liberation War are neglected by Awami League as it does not want to recognise no one other than one person -- Mujib.
Slamming the MPs for making offensive comments against Khandker, Fakhrul urged them to accept the truth what the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Armed Forces during the War of Liberation has unveiled. “Truth always comes out with its real face. AK Khandker only revealed the truth.”
Recalling Saifur Rahman’s contributions to the Liberation War, the BNP acting secretary general said the finance minister was a freedom fighter as he had raised foreign fund and worked hard to mobilise foreign countries’ support for the Liberation War.