Awami League Joint General Secretary and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is the main patron of communal forces and fundamental politics and those who encourage fundamentalism and shelter fundamentalists in the country must be uprooted for ever from the society.
He said, “You know better who practice fundamental politics. Those who did not want President, who gave ‘Fatua’ telling Hindu females are the goods of ‘Ganimat’ that Jamaat-e-Islami is the main partner of BNP.
Many people from their 22-party alliance went to Afghanistan for taking part in war with the ‘Taliban’ fighters against the US-led NATO warriors giving slogan -- We all are Taliban and Bangla will be Afghan.”
The Information Minister was speaking at a programme at the Chittagong Circuit House on Friday.
The event was organized to distribute cheques among those who (three persons) servived the Banshkhali Upazila fire incident in 2003. A total of 11 persons from the minority families fell prey to fire attack and three of them survived. The information minister handed over cheques for Tk 45 lac to the three persons given by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Cheques were also distributed among the families who were affected in the Sitakunda BM Container Depot fire accidents and Jubo Kalyan organizations.
Presided over Chottogram Deputy Commissioner Md Mominur Rahman, the function was attended, among others, by Banshkhali constituency MP of Jatiya Sangsad Mostafizur Rahman, General Secretary of Chottogram City Awami League and former mayor AJM Nasir Uddin and General Secretary of Chottogram South city unit Awami League Mofizur Rahman.
Dr Hasan Mahmud said BNP resorted to persecution of minority families after assuming power in 2001 across the country. And being compelled Awami League had to open shelter centre at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka for the minority Hindu families who came to Dhaka.
Besides, the BNP-Jamaat people occupied the houses and property of Hidu families and burnt their shops and houses. They fell to their attacks and tortures only for casting their votes in favour of the Awami candidates, Hasan Mahmud added.
