Leaders of Khulna City and District Awami League (AL) Sunday accused BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir of giving false statements over obstructions and harassment by AL to join BNP leaders and activists at Khulna rally on Saturday.
They made this allegation while addressing a press conference this noon at the Journalist Humayun Kabir Balu Auditorium at Khulna Press Club here.
Quoting Fakhrul’s speech published in different print, online and electronic media where he made statements that thousands of people were obstructed to join the BNP rally, the AL leaders said Fakhrul should seek apology to the nation for making such false statements.
Khulna District AL President and newly elected Zila Parishad Chairman Sheikh Harun-ur-Rashid made the remarks while delivering written speech on behalf of his party at the press conference.
General Secretaries of City and District units of AL MDA Babul Rana and Advocate Sujit Kumar Adhikari, Parliament Member of Khulna-6 constituency Akteruzzaman Babu, President of Khulna Lawyers Association advocate Saiful Islam, among others, spoke.
Leaders of AL and its front organizations were present at the conference.
‘People are considering his [Fakhrul] statements as mockery, while children are also laughing when he says that the AL men intercepted, swooped and attacked BNP men in different city points,’ Harun said.
‘No AL men attacked BNP processions anywhere in the division, but BNP men carrying sticks, sharp weapons, guns attacked Police and AL men. They vandalized and torched different AL offices and ransacked public establishments including Khulna Railway Station, he said.
“Fakhrul should have congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina when he was crossing the Padma Bridge on his way to Khulna and witnessing the development of South-Western region including Khulna city, he added.
AL leaders claimed that the region was very much neglected during BNP-Jamaat regime as any development projects were implemented after the then Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was elected as a Parliament Member from Khulna-2 constituency.