Joy says he never met Safadi
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has trashed Israeli politician Mendi N Safadi's claim that the two had a meeting in Washington last year.
“I have never met Safadi, either in Washington or anywhere else. He is lying,” Joy wrote in a Facebook post.
“That he [Safadi] is willing to lie for the BNP also proves that he is involved in a conspiracy with the BNP. Otherwise, why would he lie on their behalf?”
Joy, ICT adviser to the PM, uploaded the post early yesterday, two days after Israel's Likud Party leader Safadi in an interview with BBC Bangla claimed he had visited Joy's office in Washington last year.
Joy also said it was “shameful” that BBC Bangla broadcast “this obviously fake interview without verifying facts. This really hurts their credibility as a news source”.
On Saturday, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif had also dismissed Safadi's claim and termed it a BNP drama.
Hours after Joy uploaded the Facebook post, the BNP yesterday claimed that people did not believe what the PM's son was saying.
At a press briefing at the party's Naya Paltan central office in the capital, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed said people were waiting to see what action the government would take over the “meeting” between joy and Safadi.
He also accused the government of having double standards over the matter.
On Thursday, police filed a sedition case with Gulshan Police Station against arrested BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury for allegedly hatching a conspiracy with Likud Party and Israel's intelligence agency Mossad to oust the government.
Known to be a trusted lieutenant of BNP's Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, Chittagong-based businessman Aslam came under severe criticism both in and outside the party after several photographs, showing him with Safadi, also chief of Israel's International Diplomacy and Public Relations, went viral on social media.
The two had met in India this April.
After Aslam's arrest, several Awami League leaders alleged that the BNP was conspiring to topple the government with the help of Mossad.
The BNP, however, termed the allegation “a cooked-up story”. Aslam said he met Safadi “accidentally”.
Bangladesh has no relations with Israel.
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