Foreign Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said that two of the freed BNP leaders, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, are sounding increasingly incoherent as they try and put forward various narratives to justify their own position and save face.
"They are talking in such a way because BNP's anti-election conspiracies failed, and the whole world has expressed interest to work with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government," the foreign minister said.
He said this while addressing the inaugural session of the biennial general meeting of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) at the National Press Club in the capital on Tuesday.
Hasan said BNP leaders, having boycotted the election, are now questionable to the party activists. On the other hand the present Awami League government is much stronger than any previous government.
“Countries and organisations, including India, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, have congratulated the government elected for coming to power fifth time, including the fourth time in a row, under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after the January 7 election,” said the AL leader. "Those who hatched conspiracies over the election, tried to foil the election, have now become silent, their faces have become pale, they do not know what to do now.”
The PM's former media adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, BFUJ president Omar Faruque, JPC president Farida Yasmin, general secretary Shyamal Dutta and BFUJ acting secretary general Sheikh Mamunur Rashid, among others, addressed the function with Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) president Sohel Haider Chowdhury in the chair.