Staff correspondent :

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said the politics of anti-state and vengeance must be stopped forever to take the country to the destination dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the freedom fighters.

“If we want to take future Bangladesh to the destination dreamt by Bangabandhu and the freedom fighters, continuing current progress, the politics of anti-state and hatred must be stopped forever,” he said.

Hasan, also ruling Awami League (AL) joint general secretary, said this while addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) here, marking the National Mourning Day.

He said: “We could not take the country to our dream destination if the politics of patronizing Jamaat-e-Islami, who did not want the country (Bangladesh) and fought in favour of ‘four stars (Pakistani flag)’ being collaborator of Pakistani occupation forces, is not stopped”.

The JPC organized the discussion titled ‘Discussion on August 15: Bangabandhu and Future Bangladesh’ with its President Farida Yasmin in the chair.

Former minister AB Tajul Islam, MP, Prime Minister’s former information advisor Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust (BJWT) Managing Director Shuvash Chanda Badol, JPC General Secretary Shyamal Dutta and senior journalists Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan and Azizul Islam Bhuiyan spoke at the programme, among others.

Awami League led the Liberation War while the best sons of the nation the valiant freedom fighters fought in the war risking their lives, Hasan said, adding that the sector commanders were appointed by the war-time government and they drew their salaries from that government.

“Ziaur Rahman also took salary of Taka 400 from that government,” he said.

The historical fact is that Ziaur Rahman was involved in the assassination of Bangabandhu and his participation in the Liberation War was as an accomplice of the Pakistani occupation force, the course of events proved it, the AL joint general secretary added.

“Zia and her family are the biggest beneficiaries of the tragic killings on August 15 in 1975. The proof of Ziaur Rahman’s intimate connection with the assassination of Bangabandhu is that after the assassination of Bangabandhu, Khondaker Mushtaq appointed Ziaur Rahman as the army chief because he was his confidant,” he said.

Zia allowed Bangabandhu’s killers to leave the country with jobs in embassies abroad and rehabilitated all of them, Hasan said, adding that to legalize the Indemnity Ordinance issued to block the prosecution of Bangabandhu’s murder, the ruling party placed a bill on the first day of the first Jatiya Sangsad (JS) session after the 1979 parliamentary elections to enact a law to block the trial of Bangabandhu killing and subsequently it was passed.

Highlighting the historical facts, the information minister said all anti Liberation War people joined BNP and Begum Khaleda Zia used to celebrate her fake birthday on August 15 to mock the assassination of Bangabandhu.

“And with due respect to Mirza Fakhrul, I want to say that his father was also among the anti-Liberation War people, who was in hiding for a few days after the country’s independence,” he added.

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