“The enemies (BNP) chose the path of conspiracy against Bangabandhu after they had failed to combat him politically. In that way, BNP is now out to hatch conspiracies after becoming unsuccessful in combating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina politically,” he said.
The minister made the comments while addressing a protest rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. Dhaka South City Unit of Awami League arranged the rally protesting the election held on February 15, 1996.
Criticising a comment of BNP leaders over toppling the ruling government, Hasan said there might be two reasons behind their remarks. One is that they have been involved in conspiracies against the government for the last 12 consecutive years like the way they hatched conspiracy against Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“Another is that they are now dependent on destiny after becoming isolated from the people of the country,” the minister said.
Terming the recent report of Al-Jazeera as a part of conspiracy, he said Al-Jazeera is losing its credibility as the people of the country and the world didn’t accept the untrue and fabricated reports.
About the rally of BNP, the minister said if the gathering of hundreds of people in Dhaka city out of about two crore people is a huge gathering, then the world is getting smaller for BNP. And it is necessary to understand how isolated they are from the people, said Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary.
Congratulating BNP leaders for taking COVID 19 vaccine despite spreading propaganda against the vaccine from the very beginning, the minister said BNP leaders should take the vaccine as the government needs strong opposition.
Mentioning that Begum Khaleda Zia had tried her level best to retain the power by conducting voter-less election on February 15, 1996, he said, “But they were able to retain state power only for one and a half months.”
Hasan said the mass people of the country said them (BNP) ‘goodbye’ through movement and choose Bangabandhu’s worthy daughter Sheikh Hasina to form the government through election.
The minister said the sun of Bangla’s independence set on June 23, 1757 at Palashi’s orchard. Awami League was born on June 23, 1949, and the party (AL) formed the government and started the progress in the country on June 23, 1996, after 21 years.
He said BNP is now talking about elections-democracy while the party was born at Cantonment. Most of their (BNP) leaders are from other parties who joined the party (BNP) for money like football-cricket teams, Hasan added.
Awami League Presidium Member Begum Matia Chowdhury addressed the discussion as the chief guest while AL Presidium Member Jahangir Kabir Nanak, MP, joint secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim and Cultural Affairs Secretary Ashim Kumar Ukil, addressed it as special guests.
AL Dhaka South city unit general secretary Humayun Kabir conducted the discussion with its president Abu Ahmed Mannafi in the chair.
