Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said that BNP-Jamaat will make the country deserted if Sheikh Hasina is not voted to win the next general election.
“Conspiracy to turn Bangladesh into a failed state and erase Bangabandhu from the history of Bangladesh forever is still going on. To stop this conspiracy, the people's leader Sheikh Hasina must win in the next parliamentary election,” he said.
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The minister said this while addressing a roundtable discussion titled "August Tragedy: National and International Politics" as the chief guest organised by Sampriti Bangladesh at CIRDAP auditorium in the capital.
He said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman not only spared the culprits involved in the brutal killings of August 15, 1975 and November 13, 1975 under trial he had given them jobs in Bangladesh’s embassies abroad as a reward.
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The minister said Ziaur Rahman formed a government with Razakar, Al-Badr where Shah Azizur Rahman was made prime minister, he added.
At that time, the law minister announced that a high-level commission will be formed to reveal the identity of Bangabandhu's killers and conspirators.
“A draft law to set up the commission has been prepared. We will leave the commission to the people studying history, researching history and establishing the truth,” he added.
“Bangabandhu's murder trial was held and the verdict of this trial has been implemented only because Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been running the government for the last 15 years,” he said.
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Presided over by Pijush Bandyopadhyay, convener of Sampriti Bangladesh and moderated by Member Secretary Dr Mamun Al Mahtab Swapnil, the function was also addressed by former Appellate Division Judge Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and political and security analyst Major General (retd) Mohammad Ali Sikder and many others.