Staff Reporter :
The ruling Awami League and the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee on Tuesday strongly condemned the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s statement about the exact number of people, who embraced martyrdom during the country’s 1971 Liberation War. “
They termed the statement as a blue print to make the Liberation War and the sacrifice of the Freedom Fighters controversial and said that Khaleda proved,
she is still loyal to Pakistani occupation forces.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday at a discussion in the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh at Ramna, raised a question about the exact number of people, who embraced deaths during the country’s 1971 Liberation War. “
She also said, Awami League is not a political party of freedom fighters. There are Rajakars in Hasina’s own family, but she is blind to them.
Awami League Publicity and Publication Affairs Secretary Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said that Begum Khaleda Zia very consciously raised the question about the exact number of martyrs.
“She (Khaleda) wants to make the Liberation War and the sacrifice of the Freedom Fighters controversial. It seems to us that Khaleda Zia is sick. But the whole BNP can’t be sick,” he said while addressing a discussion at the National Press Club in the city yesterday. Hasan Mahmud said that her (Khaleda) party standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah admitted that the country achieved its independence due to the contribution of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“BNP another standing committee member Moudud Ahmed has already written a book on the ‘Liberation War’. But BNP Chairperson Khaleda is giving different statements. It is very unfortunate,” he said. He urged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to listen to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic March 7, 1971 speech.
“Had Bangabandhu compromised with Pakistan, he would have become the Prime Minister of that country,” Hasan Mahmud said.
He said it might be that the BNP chief considers Jamaat-e-Islami as a friend of the freedom fighters.
“This party (Jamaat) opposed the Liberation War, fought against the freedom fighters and killed many people during the Liberation War in 1971. Ironically this is that party with which she has formed an alliance,” he said.
Meanwhile, Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee on Tuesday in a statement strongly condemned and protested the BNP Chairperson’s statement.
“By issuing a statement on Monday, Khaleda has proved that she is still loyal to Pakistan,” the statement said.
The statement signed by the organisation’s President Justice Golam Rabbani, acting President Shahriar Kabir and Vice-President Muntasir Mamun cited the example of Holocaust Denial Act in Europe and said, “If such acts are not enacted and BNP comes to power in future in Bangladesh, the history and spirit of Liberation War will totally disappear.”
The ruling Awami League and the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee on Tuesday strongly condemned the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s statement about the exact number of people, who embraced martyrdom during the country’s 1971 Liberation War. “
They termed the statement as a blue print to make the Liberation War and the sacrifice of the Freedom Fighters controversial and said that Khaleda proved,
she is still loyal to Pakistani occupation forces.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday at a discussion in the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh at Ramna, raised a question about the exact number of people, who embraced deaths during the country’s 1971 Liberation War. “
She also said, Awami League is not a political party of freedom fighters. There are Rajakars in Hasina’s own family, but she is blind to them.
Awami League Publicity and Publication Affairs Secretary Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said that Begum Khaleda Zia very consciously raised the question about the exact number of martyrs.
“She (Khaleda) wants to make the Liberation War and the sacrifice of the Freedom Fighters controversial. It seems to us that Khaleda Zia is sick. But the whole BNP can’t be sick,” he said while addressing a discussion at the National Press Club in the city yesterday. Hasan Mahmud said that her (Khaleda) party standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah admitted that the country achieved its independence due to the contribution of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“BNP another standing committee member Moudud Ahmed has already written a book on the ‘Liberation War’. But BNP Chairperson Khaleda is giving different statements. It is very unfortunate,” he said. He urged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to listen to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic March 7, 1971 speech.
“Had Bangabandhu compromised with Pakistan, he would have become the Prime Minister of that country,” Hasan Mahmud said.
He said it might be that the BNP chief considers Jamaat-e-Islami as a friend of the freedom fighters.
“This party (Jamaat) opposed the Liberation War, fought against the freedom fighters and killed many people during the Liberation War in 1971. Ironically this is that party with which she has formed an alliance,” he said.
Meanwhile, Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee on Tuesday in a statement strongly condemned and protested the BNP Chairperson’s statement.
“By issuing a statement on Monday, Khaleda has proved that she is still loyal to Pakistan,” the statement said.
The statement signed by the organisation’s President Justice Golam Rabbani, acting President Shahriar Kabir and Vice-President Muntasir Mamun cited the example of Holocaust Denial Act in Europe and said, “If such acts are not enacted and BNP comes to power in future in Bangladesh, the history and spirit of Liberation War will totally disappear.”
