Staff Reporter :The Cabinet meeting on Monday witnessed hot debate over the telephone conversations of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, which have already been uploaded in the YouTube.The weekly Cabinet meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Secretariat, also heard some audio tapes of Khaleda’s telephone conversations provided by a government department. Several ministers opined that Khaleda Zia must be held for instructing her party men to conduct sabotage in the name of movement. The PM, however, did not make any comment on it.Quoting the Premier, one of the ministers said, “The PM only said really! Really she [Khaleda] had instructed for conducting violence!”Several ministers at that time said the BNP leaders with whom Khaleda Zia had talked must be identified. Everything will be clear, the ministers said, if those are brought to book. It needs to find out whether there are more such instructions in this regard. There must be an investigation to unearth the fact, the ministers mentioned in the meeting.In this regard, the ministers said the recent interruption of her telecommunication was done rationally for the wellbeing of people. In some audio records played in the meeting, Khaleda Zia was heard instructing angrily some of her party men. She also asked to remove some leaders [of BNP] from their posts for not properly obeying her instructions. Meanwhile, a government department had been tracking mobile phone conversation of some opposition political leaders, including Khaleda Zia and some top BNP leaders, for the last several months. The record of telephone conversations is now in the hands of government high-ups, sources said.After analyzing the conversations, the concerned government agencies have found that most of the phone calls had been made from London while the calls were received by the men resided at Gulshan and Naya Paltan areas. Following the invention, the law enforcers conducted a series of operations and arrested some senior BNP leaders. The government also interrupted mobile communication of Khaleda Zia’s political office on Saturday.
