‘AL mastermind of arson violence’

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that Awami League, not BNP, is the mastermind of "arson violence".

The BNP leader made the remarks while speaking to reporters after talks with three political parties at the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office. Fakhrul sat with the delegations of the Minority Janata Party, Bangladesh NAP, and Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal.

Fakhrul claimed people belonging to AL were involved in all the incidents of arson attacks that happened centring the 10th parliamentary polls.

"We're a liberal democratic party. We believe in (change in power) through elections. We have never come to power by resorting to arson attacks in the past, and we don't want to do it now as well."