The Awami League has blamed the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami for the bomb attack on the Shia gathering at Hossaini Dalan in Old Dhaka. Ruling party leaders said it was part of a planned conspiracy. “The BNP-Jamaat alliance is trying to create anarchy to destabilise the country to come to power through back door and save war criminals,” said AL Joint Secretary General Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif.
And this is why they have ordered their militant groups to do bombings, he said.
He made the statement after a joint meeting at AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s political office at Dhanmondi.
AL Presidium Member and Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said BNP Chief Khaleda Zia might have been involved in the grenade attack on the Shia community.
Nasim was briefing media after his visit to an exhibition of newspaper clippings at the Shilpakala Academy in the capital yesterday.
Nasim said Khaleda and Tarique were plotting such attacks on people, foreigners and others to create anarchy in the country.
Food Minister Qamrul Islam said the BNP had plotted to kill foreigners with the help of international terrorist and militant groups to tarnish the image of the country. He was addressing a discussion in Dhaka on Friday.
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said those who had failed to topple the government carried out the blasts and killed the two foreign nationals to malign the image of Bangladesh internationally.
The minister was addressing the inauguration of the 9th International Women’s SME Expo Bangladesh-2015 in Chittagong city’s Pologround area yesterday evening.
Chittagong Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry organised the fair in association with Export Promotion Bureau, FBCCI, SME Foundation and Jute Diversity Promotion Centre.
Addressing as the chief guest, Tofail Ahmed said Digital Bangladesh is no longer a dream, but it has now become a reality.
Meanwhile, the BNP has demanded a fair and neutral investigation into the incident of bomb attack on a Shia gathering in the capital’s Husaini Dalan.
“We strongly condemn the incident and, demand a fair and impartial probe into the tragic incident to identify the attackers and bring them to justice immediately,” said BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at BNP’s Nayaplatan Central office on Saturday.
