Promises she should keep

Terming the just-concluded India visit by opposition leader Khaleda Zia important, ruling Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said he hoped the BNP chief would keep the promises she had made during this visit.
The Awami League knows of the promises the BNP chairperson has made to India, Ashraful said, adding the ruling party would convene a press conference to let people know about them.
He talked to reporters after placing wreaths at the graves of the four national leaders killed at Dhaka jail on November 3, 1975.
Ashraful, who is also local government and rural development (LGRD) and cooperatives minister, said that as leader of the opposition, Khaleda Zia could definitely visit India; there was nothing wrong in it. Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had also visited India when she was the opposition leader.
Replying to a query, the ruling party spokesperson said Khaleda's India visit did not worry the ruling party.
Ashraful, son of the country's first acting president Syed Nazrul Islam who was among the leaders killed in prison, said the nation expected the trial of their killers to be completed soon. All the evidence of the jail killings had been destroyed during the BNP-Jamaat coalition government.
There is no need for any special commission for investigating the 1975 jail killings or for the trial of the killing case, the LGRD minister said.
As in the murder case of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the case of the national leaders' killing would be resolved through a normal process, he said. And thus the nation would come by justice.