Awami League Presidium Member Mohammed Nasim yesterday urged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia not to celebrate her `fake birthday’ by cutting cake on the National Mourning Day, August 15, when Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members was killed in 1975.
“August 15 is the day of mourning for the Bangalee nation. It does not matter you [Khaleda Zia] do not observe this as a mourning day. But do not observe your fake birthday on such a day,” he said, while addressing at a rally organised by Sammilito Awami Samarthak Jote at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on the first day of the Month of Mourning.
The health minister said: “The killers of 1971 and 1975 along with their followers are trying to repeat another incident like that of the August 15 carnage. They had wanted to kill Sheikh Hasina but failed. Now they are conspiring again.”
He said: “The whole world has accepted the January 5 polls. Khaleda Zia made a mistake by not taking part in that election, and [to make it up] she has been plotting to grab power.”
Pointing to the BNP for the party’s plan to start movement after Eid, Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya said, “Tough action would be taken against those who would try to create anarchy in the name of movement.
Meanwhile, addressing another programme organised to mark the first day of August, Food Minister Qamrul Islam also ruled out any possibility of dialogue with the BNP.