Criticising Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam’s allegation that Jasad created grounds for the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Wednesday said it is not the time for ‘mudslinging’ as secret killings are taking place in the country.
“It isn’t the time to analyse the mistakes made by Awami League and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal from 1972-1975. But it’s history which will judge it and everything will be evaluated in the light of history,” he said.
Inu, also the president of a fraction of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) said this while talking to journalists after a programme held at the Secretariat in the city. At a programme of Bangladesh Chhatra League on Monday, Syed Ashraful Islam said JSD created grounds for the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the economic backwardness of the country.
“JSD had misguided people about the spirit of the Liberation War in the name of scientific socialism and tried to make independence controversial,” he added. Reacting to the remarks of AL general secretary, Inu said, “At this moment, militants are attacking the common people through secret killings… It’s a severe problem. All-out and combine efforts are needed for the security of the country and its people. The 14-party under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina is working together in this regard.”
“We think there shouldn’t be any mudslinging within the 14-party. Isn’ t the time to practise history rather it is the time to stamp out militancy completely and protect the people of the country. That’s why I think the comments which are being made against Jasad are unexpected, regretful and irrelevant,” said the information minister. Shedding lights on the context of 1972-1975, the JSD leader said it has to be kept in mind that every incident of the time was documented in the pages of history.
“History will evaluate how wrong, or how much harms were done by the sycophants of Bangabandhu and Jasad who publicly detracted him,” he added.
“It has to be kept in mind that the prime minister herself and we repeatedly said Bangabandhu was killed by a reactionary, anti-state and communal force. So, the comment to hold a specific political party responsible for the killing of Bangabandhu is not historical,” he added. Inu went on saying, “Today, we think Awami League, Jasad and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have decided to forge the unity analysing deeply the sorrowful event of the 1975. And we think the unity has brought welfare to the nation.”
He observed that Bangladesh was able to lead itself under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina in the path of non-communalism, democracy and constitution recovering from communalism and the curse of military rule.
The Jasad leader urged its leaders and activists not to be misguided by the comment of Awami League general secretary. In reply to a question whether Ashraf’s comment would cast any impact on the unity of the alliance, he said, “The unity of Awami League and Jasad was a political decision. So, such comment won’t affect the unity.”
