United News of Bangladesh

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday took an apparent swipe at Jamaat-e-Islami, accusing the party of repeatedly trying to "fish in troubled waters," while also launching a scathing attack on the Awami League during a rally marking "Jatrabari Resistance Day." Speaking at the programme in the capital's Jatrabari, Rizvi said a party that claims to practise politics in the name of religion had opposed Bangladesh's independence despite the country's overwhelming support for the Liberation War. Referring to Jamaat without naming it directly, he said, "Their politics is about fishing in troubled waters time and again. But after a while, they themselves fall into those troubled waters." Criticising former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League, Rizvi alleged that Hasina could not return to politics after the bloodshed she had caused. "Fascism is in their blood. Deception and hypocrisy are their political ideology," he said. He also alleged that some television presenters and commentators were trying to make Hasina politically relevant again by praising her in talk shows after August 5. At the same rally, Gono Odhikar Parishad President and State Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Nurul Haque claimed that some student leaders had come under the influence of "foreign forces" during the final five to seven days of the July mass uprising in 2024. He alleged that some student leaders had even stayed at the residences of individuals associated with foreign embassies.