People got direction from Zia in 1971
Says Fakhrul
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said it's an obvious truth that late president Ziaur Rahman had declared the country's independence, and those who had failed to do that don't want to admit it.
Referring to the War of Liberation, he said, “They [Awami League leaders] had surrendered at a time when people depended on them. Many of them left the country for India. So, people did not get any direction when disaster came on them on this day in 1971,” he said.
He was addressing a discussion organised by the main opposition BNP at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the city on the occasion of Independence Day.
Mirza Fakhrul said Ziaur Rahman, founder of the party, who was a major in the Pakistan army, gave direction to the people by announcing the declaration of independence.
The High Court, however, in a verdict, said that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had proclaimed independence.
Mirza Fakhrul also said people were suffering under the incumbent government, facing acute crises of power, gas and water.
People's investments were looted from the share market but no action has been taken, he said.
“The government always tries to allege that we are obstructing the trial of the war criminals when we raise these issues,” he said, adding, “it was Sheikh Mujib who had pardoned the identified war criminals after the liberation war.”
Party leaders Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Nazrul Islam Khan, Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Mirza Abbas, Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed and Kalyan Party Chairman Maj Gen (retd) Syed Muhammad Ibrahim also addressed the discussion.
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