BSS :
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said the BNP leaders and workers will be ashamed if the full history of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman’s involvement in the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is exposed.
He came up with the remark while addressing a meeting organised on Tuesday at Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) marking the National Mourning Day, a ministry press release said.
State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Md Murad Hassan, Information and Broadcasting Secretary Mokbul Hossain, Film Directors Association president Sohanur Rahman Sohan and its general secretary Shahin Suman, and Film Artistes Association president Misha Sawdagor and its general secretary Zayed Khan also spoke at the meeting with BFDC managing director Nuzhat Yasmin in the chair.
Speaking as the chief guest, Hasan said Ziaur Rahman was deeply involved in the Bangabandhu killing and the masks of Zia and other masterminds behind the barbaric killing will be gradually exposed.
When the history of how Ziaur Rahman played a role in the 1971 liberation war favouring Pakistan, how he was deeply involved in the Bangabandhu killing and how he later rehabilitated the killers of Bangabandhu will fully be unveiled, then the BNP men will be ashamed, he said.
Hasan, also the Awami League Joint General Secretary, said Zia fought the Pakistani force on the battlefield as a sector commander, while the Pakistan Army took care of his wife and sons keeping them in cantonment, which was never possible.
“This situation and a letter of Pakistani Colonel Beg written to Zia proved the role of Ziaur Rahman in the Liberation War,” he said.
The minister said in collusion with the international forces that did not want the independence of Bangladesh and opposed its liberation war and took up arms supporting Pakistan, the evil force hiding its had killed Bangabandhu.
He said Khandaker Mushtaq Ahmed and Ziaur Rahman were involved in the evil force because Zia was unloading weapons from the Swatch ship on March 25.
Later, when he was stopped there, Zia went to Karlekha hill in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram, Hasan said.
About the present state of the country’s film industry, the information minister said the film industry is going through a crisis now but the government has already taken various steps to overcome it.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has fulfilled the long-standing demand of film artistes as the Film Artistes Welfare Trust has been established, he said.
Hasan said a special fund involving Taka 1,000 crore has been established for the reconstruction of cinema halls, reopening of the closed halls and construction of new cinema halls.
“We’ll hold a meeting, led by the secretary of the ministry, with representatives of private banks and hall owners, producers and others concerned so that everyone can get benefit from this sector soon, he added.
