HT Imam is our man: Khaleda\\\'s press secy

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister’s Adviser HT Imam is a ‘BNP man’ and urged the government to not harm him. ‘HT Imam is our man. Don’t dare to harm him. Our people are everywhere and they’ll inform us everything at the right time. He (Imam) divulged the truth and so did Abdul Latif Siddique. Many other people will also reveal the facts,’ Maruf Kamal Khan said while addressing a discussion arranged by Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, marking the 50th birthday of BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman. HT Imam drew flak from the ruling party’s senior leaders for his some remarks at a programme of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on November 19 as the opposition parties, mainly the BNP, took his statements as ‘hotcake’ in support of their claim that the January-5 election was a staged-managed one. At the BCL discussion at Dhaka University’s TSC, HT Imam said many pro-AL officials, before the January 5 polls, were inducted in mobile courts and this helped the government hold the election despite the BNP-Jamaat’s bid to thwart it. ‘They (pro-AL officials) stood beside us.’ Maruf said those who are now coming up with true assertions from within the government are the people of BNP and democracy. ‘There’re many BNP men like HT Imam outside our own party (BNP),’ according to a news agency.