'AL, RAW plotted to kill Kibria, foil summit'

The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party's student wing yesterday accused Awami League (AL) and India of killing former finance minister SAMS Kibria.

From a rally held under the banner of 'Stop Propaganda against Bangladesh', Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders said AL chief Sheikh Hasina and India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) killed Kibria as part of a plot to foil the 13th Saarc Summit with an intent to tarnish the country's image.

The rally held at Aparajeyo Bangla on Dhaka University campus followed a procession brought out from the Madhu's Canteen.

Addressing the rally, the JCD leaders accused Hasina of running a propaganda campaign against Bangladesh both at home and abroad. JCD President Azizul Bari Helal said due to a close relationship with India, she had convinced the Indian prime minister not to join the Saarc Summit.

JCD General Secretary Shafiul Bari Babu said Hasina has long been involved in conspiring against the country. Now she is trying to cause anarchy in the country at the expense even of her own party men.

She (Hasina) portrays Bangladesh as a country of anarchy and instability so that she could win sympathy of the world leaders, Babu said adding that if the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) carry out a thorough and impartial search in Sudha Sadan, the AL president's Dhanmondi residence, everything would come out clear.

AL's student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday brought out a pro-hartal procession on the campus at about 6:30am in the morning. They held a rally after police had stopped the procession at the entrance to Arts Building.

Blaming the BNP-Jamaat-led coalition for 'slaying AL leaders and activists' across the country, BCL President Liaqat Sikder demanded immediate resignation of the government.

BCL DU unit President Delwar Hossain presided over the rally addressed among others by General Secretary Hemayet Uddin Khan Himu.

Meanwhile a JCD source said they would beat up BCL leaders and activists if they try to bring out procession on the campus. A number of students residing in different DU dormitories yesterday alleged that hall units JCD leaders had forced them to join the JCD procession.