Khaleda was hiding during BDR mutiny, says Hanif
The ruling Awami League yesterday put a series of questions to Leader of the Opposition and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia about the 2009 BDR mutiny, inquiring where she had been during the mutiny and why she had left her cantonment house half an hour before it broke out.
“Why you woke up early in the morning on the day of the mutiny? Why you [Khaleda] went to a hideout during the BDR mutiny? Why you fled your cantonment house on a tainted black glass car? Where were you during the mutiny?”, AL's Acting General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif asked at a press conference at the party chief's political office in the city's Dhanmondi.
“If these questions are answered, it will be known who were involved in the mutiny and everything will be clear to the people for whose reprisal, the 57 army officials had to get killed”, said Hanif.
Saying the BNP chairperson was hiding in the residence of a high commissioner of a Southeast country, the AL leader asked Khaleda to answer the questions.
Hanif deeply condoled the deaths of 74 people including 57 army officials in the mutiny, which took place in Pilkhana headquarters on February 25-26, 2009.
About transit, the AL leader said the transit treaty was inked between Ziaur Rahman's commerce minister Chowdhury Tanvir Siddique and Indian commerce minister Pranab Mukherjee in the presence of Zia, and Khaleda renewed the treaty for the second time in 2006. “Now she has been trying to pin the blame of inking transit treaty on Awami League to gain cheap political interest”, Hanif said.
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