Minister for Liberation War Affairs AKM Mozammel Huq said the defeated forces of 1971 and the BNP-Jamaat combine have been continuing their conspiracy to distort the glorious history of the country’s war of liberation.
He called upon the people of the country to remain alert against the conspiracy of the evil forces.
“A bill regarding the impeachment of judges has been passed in the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) recently. Centring the bill, BNP leader in collaboration with Jamaat called a hartal (total shutdown). It’s their old tactics of collaboration,” the minister said this on Wednesday while speaking as the guest of honour at a discussion in the city.
Bangabandhu Joi Bangla League organised the discussion on “Bangabandhu, war of liberation and Bangladesh” at the National Press Club in the capital with its acting president Md Kaiser-e-Alam in the chair.
Awami League presidium member Satish Chandra Roy attended the discussion as the chief guest while Jute and Textile Minister Muhammad Imajuddin Pramanik, Principal Sujaul Karim Chowdhury Babul, Muhammad Ashraful Islam and general secretary of the organization Saiful Islam Chayan were the discussants, among others.
Referring to the recently published book of Air Vice-Marshall (Retd) AK Khondker-“1971: Bhetore-Baire” (In and outside of 1971), Mozammel Huq, also a valiant freedom fighter, said, “I was also an attendant at the historic Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) on March 7 in 1971 to listen to Bangabandhu’s speech of independence but he (AK Khondker) was not there. I didn’t hear Bangabandhu concluding his speech by saying ‘Joi Pakistan’.
