UNB, Dhaka :
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that local BNP leaders were arrested in connection with the attacks on the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria to divert people’s attention to another direction.
“The government is arresting local BNP leaders after filing false cases against them to divert the Hindu community’s resentment brewed following repeated attacks on them, looting of their property and governments’ misrule to another direction,” he said in a statement. Fakhrul claimed that the houses and temples of the Hindu community were vandalised and looted in Nasirnagar over an internal conflict of the ruling party. “It’s been proved beyond doubt that leaders and activists of Awami League and its associate bodies were involved in the attacks,” he said. Protesting the arrest of BNP leaders and activists over the attacks, he demanded the government immediately release them and withdraw the ‘false’ cases filed against them.
The BNP secretary general said, the attacks on the Hindu community, their houses and temples continue one after another since Awami League assumed power. “The ruling party men are busy occupying land and property of the minority people,”
he alleged. He claimed that local BNP leaders Aminul Islam Chakdar, Junaid Siddiqui Jewel, Shahjahan and Faruk were arrested on Tuesday over the Nasirnagar attacks. Criticising the government for its treatment of the Santals in Gaibandha, Fakhrul said two Santal men, who were critically injured in attacks launched by police and Awami League on the Sangal Palli, were sent to jail without medical treatment. “Such incident is tantamount to blatant inhumanity.”
Meanwhile, BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy at a discussion here on Wednesday said they will try the Nasirnagar attackers if their party goes to power. Shaheed Zia Ainjibi Parishad, a pro-BNP lawyers’ platform, arranged the discussion at the Jatiya Press Club protesting the attacks on the minority community in the country. On October 30, a group of religious zealots carried out a synchronised attack on Hindu people, vandalising around 100 homes and temples and looting their valuables, including cash, gold ornaments and idols, television and mobile phones. The two-hour mayhem reportedly followed a Facebook post from the account of a local fisherman, ‘hurting the religious sentiment’ of Muslims.
Unidentified miscreants set fire to at least six houses of Hindus at different villages in Nasirnagar upazila on November 5 and torched another Hindu house at Changapur village in the same upazila on November 13 amid huge outcry following the previous attack on the Hindu community.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that local BNP leaders were arrested in connection with the attacks on the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria to divert people’s attention to another direction.
“The government is arresting local BNP leaders after filing false cases against them to divert the Hindu community’s resentment brewed following repeated attacks on them, looting of their property and governments’ misrule to another direction,” he said in a statement. Fakhrul claimed that the houses and temples of the Hindu community were vandalised and looted in Nasirnagar over an internal conflict of the ruling party. “It’s been proved beyond doubt that leaders and activists of Awami League and its associate bodies were involved in the attacks,” he said. Protesting the arrest of BNP leaders and activists over the attacks, he demanded the government immediately release them and withdraw the ‘false’ cases filed against them.
The BNP secretary general said, the attacks on the Hindu community, their houses and temples continue one after another since Awami League assumed power. “The ruling party men are busy occupying land and property of the minority people,”
he alleged. He claimed that local BNP leaders Aminul Islam Chakdar, Junaid Siddiqui Jewel, Shahjahan and Faruk were arrested on Tuesday over the Nasirnagar attacks. Criticising the government for its treatment of the Santals in Gaibandha, Fakhrul said two Santal men, who were critically injured in attacks launched by police and Awami League on the Sangal Palli, were sent to jail without medical treatment. “Such incident is tantamount to blatant inhumanity.”
Meanwhile, BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy at a discussion here on Wednesday said they will try the Nasirnagar attackers if their party goes to power. Shaheed Zia Ainjibi Parishad, a pro-BNP lawyers’ platform, arranged the discussion at the Jatiya Press Club protesting the attacks on the minority community in the country. On October 30, a group of religious zealots carried out a synchronised attack on Hindu people, vandalising around 100 homes and temples and looting their valuables, including cash, gold ornaments and idols, television and mobile phones. The two-hour mayhem reportedly followed a Facebook post from the account of a local fisherman, ‘hurting the religious sentiment’ of Muslims.
Unidentified miscreants set fire to at least six houses of Hindus at different villages in Nasirnagar upazila on November 5 and torched another Hindu house at Changapur village in the same upazila on November 13 amid huge outcry following the previous attack on the Hindu community.
