Staff Reporter :
Rejecting outright BNP Chairperson’s call for holding dialogue, Awami League leaders have said there will be no dialogue with her who burnt people to death in the name of movement.
“Khaleda Zia shouldn’t call for holding dialogue until she seeks apology to the nation for burning people to death,” AL joint general secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif told journalists on Wednesday. He was addressing a press briefing after a joint meeting with the party’s associate bodies at the AL president’s Dhanmondi political office in the city. Hanif said on the one hand Khaleda Zia calls for dialogue and on the other hand she along the war criminals is hatching conspiracy against the country.
“What sort of dialogue can be taken place with her (Khaleda)?” he said. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at a rally on Tuesday urged the government to engage in talks to find out a solution to the country’s political problem and ‘restore’ democracy.
The AL leaders also expressed satisfaction as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Jamaat ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
Replying to a query about Jamaat-e-Islami’s today’s (Thursday) hartal protesting the death sentence of Matiur Rahman Nizami, he said country’s people will not tolerate any subversive activities of the war criminals.
In another programme, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque yesterday said no dialogue could be taken place with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for her disgraceful remarks about the freedom fighters. “Khaleda Zia always makes disgraceful remarks targeting the freedom fighters and Liberation War. Until she confesses and seeks apology to the nation, there will be no dialogue with her,” the minister said while addressing a sit-in programme in front of the National Press Club in the city.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister’s political adviser HT Imam has claimed that accepting the January 5 general elections, BNP had participated in the local body polls. “By holding the elections, country’s democracy has been protected. If the January 5 national polls were not held, Bangladesh would become the country of razakars where the spirit of Liberation War would be destroyed,” he said.
