AL tries to shift blame on BNP over Cumilla incident: Mirza Alamgir

AL tries to shift blame on BNP over Cumilla incident: Mirza Alamgir

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said that the ruling Awami League had been trying to shift the blame of the violence over the Cumilla puja mandap incidence on the BNP from the very beginning.

‘Not only now, the ruling party always tries to accuse the BNP after any incident although Awami League people have committed the incident,’ Fakhrul said at a press conference at the BNP central office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka.

He said that fishing in troubled waters had become a ‘regular practice’ of the Awami League.

Fakhrul alleged that ‘government agents’ placed the Quran on the lap of a Hindu idol in a Cumilla puja mandap and perpetrators of vandalising puja mandaps, houses and shops of Hindus in Noakhali were involved in the Awami League politics.

He said that people from two religions were in a situation of a head-to-head collision after the massive vandalism that had taken place because of lack of security.

‘The government has created these incidents to get political advantages,’ Fakhrul said, adding that agency people spread a ‘fake audio clip’ of BNP leader Aman Ullah Aman over the Cumilla incident.

He said that the Awami League hired 1 lakh people to spread such ‘fake audio clips’ and rumours on social media.

Fakhrul said that responding to a question of a TV journalist over a video clip of Gazipur City mayor Zahangir Alam, the prime minister in a recent press conference had said that making a video using voice of a person was possible in the age of technology.

‘So, this is clear that making a fake audio or a video and spreading them is sponsored by the state,’ Fakhrul said.

He demanded neutral probe into the recent violence in different parts of the country over the Cumulla incident.

At least six people were killed in the violence in Chandpur and Noakhali after the Cummilla incident on October 13.