The Awami League general secretary, Syed Ashraful Islam, on Monday accused a section of the media of trying to create a ground for the quarters who he said were still hatching conspiracies to kill the party president Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister.
He said that the conspiracy to kill Hasina had not stopped and the plotters were looking for chances to destabilise the situation with that motive. 'Some newspapers are looking for an Anna Hazare in Bangladesh and some television channels are depicting exaggerated pictures of a few events and thereby helping the conspirators who are looking for a ground to destabilise the situation and kill her [Hasina],' said Ashraf, also the local government, rural development and cooperatives minister, at a discussion at the city's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the afternoon.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who was scheduled to address the programme marking the seventh anniversary of the August 21 grenade attack, did not attend it on health ground.
'All journalists are not true journalists, all news reports are not objective and all newspapers are not real newspapers,' he said, adding that the people who had invited the events of January 11, 2007 were now looking for an Anna Hazare in Bangladesh.
He asked why the media were looking for an Anna Hazare in Bangladesh. 'Has corruption gobbled up the whole country?'
'They wanted the country to be governed by unelected people and so-called intellectuals,' he said.
'A new plot is under way to kill Sheikh Hasina and the quarters who attempted to kill her on August 21, 2004, are again out to destabilise the situation,' he said.
'They created an unstable situation before assassinating the father of the nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in 1975, and now they are trying to create a similar situation,' said Ashraf, urging the party activists to be united to thwart such plots.
He said that attempts were made on Hasina's life to ensure that the trials of Mujib murder and jail killing cases did not take place and the new plot to kill her aimed at stopping the trial of war criminals, August 21 grenade attacks and 10-truck arms haul in Chittagong.
AL leaders Suranjit Sengupta, Sahara Khatun, Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, MA Aziz and Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya addressed, among others, the discussion presided over by the party's presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury.
The speakers said that the trial of the grenade attack case would take place the ring leaders would be punished.
Three survivors of the grenade attacks, Nasima Ferdousi, Azizur Rahman Bachchu and Awlad Hossain, also addressed the discussion and requested the party to ensure better medical treatment for the wounded activists.
They also demanded death sentence for the perpetrators of the grenade attacks.
Source : New Age
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