DHAKA, Oct 11, 2019 (BSS) – Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today
urged BNP not to do politics in troubled water over the killing of Buet
student Abrar Fahad.
“They (BNP) are trying to make water troubled over the killing of Abrar.
They also tried to make water troubled in the past, but failed to do so,” he
said while addressing a human chain programme, formed by Bangladesh
Swadhinota Parishad, in front of Jatiya Press Club here.
Calling upon AL men to remain alert to resist the plots of BNP, Hasan
warned the party that if BNP leaders want to make water troubled and do
politics in troubled water, they would be resisted strictly.
Before raising any demand by anyone, he said, most of the suspects of the
Abrar killing were arrested following the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina.
Hasan, also Awami League publicity and publication secretary, said Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina has already assured that maximum punishment will be
ensured for those involved in the Abrar murder.
Buet student Sabekun Nahar Sony was killed in a gun battle over tender
between two rival groups of students on the campus during the regime of BNP
in 2002, he said.
“Did Chhatra Dal or BNP take any step to punish the perpetrators?” he
questioned.
About Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent Delhi visit, the information
minister said BNP is carrying out propaganda against the government over the
agreements signed between Bangladesh and India during her visit.
Even they (BNP leaders) did not read the agreements, he said, but they
have been conducting propaganda against the government and announced
programmes over the deals.
The politics of BNP is based on falsehood, Hasan said, adding “Lying
through holding press conferences is your (BNP leaders) politics.”
The government always welcomes criticism, he said: “Criticise us, but do
not criticise like an ignorant”.
There is also propaganda that the government will export national gas, but
the thing is that it will export LPG, not national gas, to India, the AL
leader said.
“We will import LPG from abroad and then we will export bottled LPG after
adding value to it,” he added.
Hasan said a newspaper published report that India would set radars in the
Bay of Bengal which is totally false and fabricated.
“But the reality is that India will give us grant for setting up radars to
check illegal fishing in the bay. The radars will be the property of the
Coast Guard and they will operate those,” he added.
Chaired by Bangladesh Swadhinota Parishad adviser Barrister Zakir Hossain,
the function was addressed, among others, by general secretary of AL Dhaka
South City unit Shahe Alam Murad, AL leader MA Karim and Akhter Hossain,
Swadhinota Parishad president Jinnat Ali Khan, its senior vice president
Sheikh Nowshed Ali and general secretary Shahadat Hossain.