Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said the BNP is conducting arson attacks in the name of anti-government movement.
"It is not the work of a political party. Those are activities of terrorist organisations. So, please take the pen and write against their vile activities" the minister said while speaking at a cheque distribution programme of the Journalist Welfare Trust at the Information Bhaban Auditorium in the capital's Kakrail.
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“On October 28, 32 journalists were beaten and injured during the BNP's rally. Of the injured journalists, more than 20 were from the BNP beat. They were familiar faces to the BNP men, yet they beat them. It has never happened before that so many journalists were injured in one day in Bangladesh,” he said.
The information minister said the BNP-Jamaat killed journalists whenever they were in power. About 14 journalists including Humayun Kabir Balu, Manik Saha, Saiful Islam Mukul and Shamsur Rahman in Jashore and Khulna were killed during the BNP regime, he said.
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Regarding the BNP’s central office, he said, "It’s not police or any government agency but the BNP leaders who keep their office under lock and leave. BNP leaders have lost the courage of opening their office. How will they do politics?”
“During the BNP's regime, police locked our office, I was there, we broke the lock and entered,” the AL joint secretary said.
Referring that the election will be held on time with the massive participation of the people,Hasan Mahmud said, "Let's move the country forward together. Save the country from this incendiary-anarchy, the government is determined to eliminate the anti-state forces that created this incendiary anarchy.'
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Regarding the Journalist Welfare Trust, the Information Minister said that this trust is a unique example of how much the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is journalist-friendly. “Today Journalist Welfare Trust has become a place of trust for journalists. “
The minister handed over cheques worth Tk 1,53,50,000 to 186 journalists and their families.
Earlier, the Information Minister inaugurated the new office of the Journalist Welfare Trust on the second floor of the old DFP building at the Information Bhaban complex.
Presided over by Journalist Welfare Trust Managing Director Subhash Chand, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists President Omar Faruque, Secretary General Dip Azad, Jatiya Press Club president Farida Yesmin, general secretary Shyamal Dutta , among others, were present at the event.
