Bangladesh Nationalist Party vice-chairman M Hafizuddin Ahmed on Friday strongly protested at the remark of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Ziaur Rahman that he had joined the BKSAL.
Hafizuddin termed the remark 'unwarranted' and 'false.' 'Such untrue statements are unwarranted from a politician of Sheikh Hasina's stature.'
Hafizuddin, also a retired army major who was personal secretary to Ziaur Rahman at the time when the one-party BKSAL rule
was introduced, lodged his protest at the remark by calling a press conference at his house at Banani.
Hasina at a programme in Geneva on May 17 claimed that Ziaur Rahman had joined the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League by filling in the form of the party.
'A form was sent to Ziaur Rahman in 1974, when he was the deputy chief of the army
staff, for joining the BKSAL by filling in the form but Ziaur Rahman trashed the form,' Hafizuddin said.
He alleged the Awami League does not show respect to freedom fighters and that is why it could make such filthy remarks about Ziaur Rahman.
Referring to another statement of Hasina that Khaleda Zia was 'travelling abroad with her ill-gotten money,' Hafizuddin said, 'No businessmen could file a case against Khaleda during the immediate-past emergency government alleging that she was bribed.'
The BNP leader alleged that the government was making such statements only to hide its failures.
'The people are reeling under price spiral and law and order is deteriorating while the economy is on the verge destruction. So there is no option but to hold mid-term polls to rid the countrymen of the misrule of this government,' he said.
Source: New Age
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