Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League will lose its grounds when the actual history of the War of Independence would be recorded and revealed.
‘No one can distort the true history of the country’s liberation war,’ he said while inaugurating a book fair and a photo exhibition on liberation war,’ said the BNP leader without elaborating details.
The party’s the National Committee to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Country’s Independence organised the two-day ‘Liberation War Book Fair and Photo Exhibition’ at the National Press Club in Dhaka.
‘Attempts failed to weaken the BNP. BNP chairperson has been imprisoned in cases filed on fabricated grounds and the party leaders and activates have been repressed by the ruling Awami League for 14 years. She [Khaleda] is sick. They [government] are not allowing her to go abroad for advanced treatment. The government is really inhuman,’ the BNP leader said.
This time the BNP’s one goal is to protect the country and its people from the government and the other is to restore the democratic rule.
‘We need to free our leader [Khaleda]. We have to bring the party’s acting chairman [Tarique Rahman] back to the country and create an opportunity for him to do politics independently,’ he added.
A group of BNP activists were engaged in a scuffle at the programme. Later, senior leaders brought the situation under control.
Among others, BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, chairperson’s advisers Abdus Salam and Aman Ullah Aman, Bangladesh Kalyan Party chairman Syed Muhammad Ibrahim were present in the event.
Meanwhile, addressing another programme at the National Press Club, BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said that people were struggling for their survival with their legal earnings due to the abnormal rise in prices of daily commodities.
He said that there was no alternative to the fight for democracy, social status and equality in the country.
