Backers of blasts told to back off
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the parliament yesterday urged the main opposition BNP not to patronise and encourage bomb attackers who had killed scores of people across the country.
"I urge people everywhere to remain alert about the evil forces and patrons of killers and anti-liberation elements. Those who carried out the attacks are nothing but animals and people will always hate them," said the premier.
She was speaking at a general discussion on the recent bomb attack on AL lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh.
After around two and a half hour discussion last night, the House unanimously passed a resolution expressing antipathy towards anti-liberation forces accusing them of the bomb attack on Taposh.
Earlier during the discussion, a number of ruling alliance's senior and backbench lawmakers also criticised Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia for her alleged links with Razakars and collaborators of Pakistan.
AL lawmaker Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim implicated Ziaur Rahman in the murder of Bangabandhu as he promoted the killers in their services. "Didn't Ziaur Rahman rehabilitate the anti-liberation forces politically?" he said.
He was also very critical of Khaleda's celebrating birthday on August 15.
Another AL lawmaker AKM Awal demanded arrests of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and its leader Delwar Hossain Saydee. He said facts of the attack on Taposh would reveal if they were arrested.
The prime minister and leader of the House was present in the discussion the whole time and wrapped up the session. Censuring BNP, she said they protect, nourish and award the killers.
"BNP enforced hartal on the day the trial court was scheduled to deliver its verdict on the Bangabandhu murder case," said Hasina.
Without mentioning the name of the opposition leader, the AL chief said even she could not condemn the attack on Taposh. "What restrained her to console Taposh," she said.
The premier said she had ordered the law enforcement agencies to find out the perpetrators by any means. "We will ensure the trial of these perpetrators," she added.
The ruling alliance lawmakers also held beneficiaries of August 15, 1975 bloodshed and August 21 grenade attack responsible for the attack on Taposh, a counsel of Bangabandhu killing case.
The lawmakers said the evil forces have united and engaged in conspiracy to desist from holding the trial of Bangabandhu killing and war crime cases by creating unrest in a planned way.
They said the attack was not meant on Taposh but the parliament.
Placing the proposal under section 147 of the parliament's rules of procedure, AL lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta started the discussion in which 26 lawmakers participated.
The House holds general discussion on matters of public interests under this section.
"War criminals, killers of Bangabandhu and culprits of August 21 grenade attack have united and are trying to destabilises the country," Suranjit said.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) lawmaker Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal urged the House to take a resolute stance against the evil forces.
"We will see a Pakistan in Bangladesh if our decision is proved wrong and the country will witness more bloodshed. So, we will have to go forward boldly with clear conscious and without hesitation," said Badal.
Without naming Khaleda Zia, he said names of her party leaders are also emerging in the investigation into the August 21 attack.
Jute and Textile Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui urged the prime minister to eliminate her enemy and anti-liberation forces.
AL presidium member Mohiuddin khan Alamgir urged the home minister to find out the people indirectly involved with the attack.
The home minister said the attack was well planned and it was a conspiracy of the grenade attack masterminds. "The anti-liberation forces, Mustaq-Zia nexus, are always conspiring," she added.
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