In the press note, the home ministry said a number of persons, including Awami League lawmaker Ahasanullah Master, received bullet injuries during a massive shootout Friday noon at a conference of the local unit of Awami Shechhashebak League on the premises of a school at Tongi while the new committee of the unit was being announced.

He was taken to Mohakhali Chest Diseases Hospital and then shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) where the doctors declared him dead, it said, adding a bullet-injured juvenile also died at a hospital.

On primary information, it is assumed that a group of aggrieved activists who have not been accommodated in the new committee have staged this incident, the ministry said.

Following the incident, it said, the leaders of the Awami League and its front organisations resorted to massive violence with a heinous motive to divert the incident caused by their internal conflict to another course.

As the law enforcers rushed to the spot to bring the situation under control, unruly Al men swooped on them, leaving another youth injured with bullets, the press note added.

In a press statement, Jalil said when the entire nation is stunned at the dastardly killing of a member of parliament, the government, instead of constituting a judicial inquiry, has indulged in falsehood.

"It is beyond imagination of the people that a government that claims to be a so-called champion of democracy can issue such a press note," he said.

Jalil observed that such unprecedented falsehood on the part of the government not only surprised and startled the nation but also made the people angry.

As part of blueprint to eliminate popular leaders of Awami League, the BNP-Jamaat government killed popular leader Ahsanullah Master, he said.

Jalil said Ahsanullah Master became the target of the government for his popularity and organisational capability. In support of his contention, he said police had mercilessly beaten him during a peaceful hartal in February ignoring his identity as an MP.

Moreover, for the last few days criminals belonging to the ruling party had been issuing death threats to Ahsanullah Master and Tongi Municipal Chairman Ajmatullah and both of them had registered GD with the local police station, he said.

Jalil said Ahsanullah Master was killed at the instruction from the top quarters of the government which later issued a misleading press note to protect the real killers.

He said after the heinous murders of Advocate Manzurul Imam in Khulna, ex-MP Momtajuddin in Lalpur, Natore, bomb attacks in Mymensingh and the biggest arms haul in Chittagong, the government tried to shift the blame onto Awami League as part of a conspiracy.

But with the passage of time, it has been proved that influential people and different circles of the government and a special 'Bhaban' were behind these dastardly incidents.

Urging the government to find out the real killers of Ahsanullah Master, Jalil warned that the government would have to bear the responsibility if it failed to bring the culprits to book.

Meanwhile, the left leaning 11-party yesterday condemned the press note and demanded immediate investigation into the killing of Ahasanullah Master.