‘Politics won’t be freed from stigma if BNP exists’

City Desk :

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said politics won’t be freed from stigma and hatred as long as BNP exists in politics since the party believes in the politics of killings.

“BNP believes in the politics of killings.

The August 21 grenade attacks were carried out with the patronization of Tarique Zia and with the knowledge of Khaleda Zia while Ziaur Rahman carried out the August 15 brutal killings.

Conflict of politics will never go away as long as BNP exists in the field of politics,” he said.

The minister told reporters on the twenty-first instant replying to a query at the Secretariat marking the 19th anniversary of the heinous grenade attacks on the party’s anti-terrorism rally on August 21, 2004 at Bangabandhu Avenue in the city, reports BSS.

Dr Hasan said the gruesome grenade attacks were carried out to kill Awami League President and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

It is clear that the attacks were carried out by militants with the patronization of the then BNP government, he added.

He said the grenades, found on the spot of the occurrence, are being used in the field of war by the military and the then government provided those grenades to the terrorists.