Minister urges journalists to hold pen against BNP’s atrocities

City Desk :
Urging journalists to hold their pens against BNP’s arson attacks, Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said BNP is carrying out attacks on people and public transports in the name movements.

BNP is announcing programmes of carrying out arson attacks from hide in the name of politics, he said.

The minister was distributing cheques of Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust among journalists at Tathya Bhaban auditorium here.

Subversive activities can never be political programme, Hasan Mahmud said urging journalists to hold their pen against the arsonists and miscreants.

The minister said as many as 32 journalists sustained injuries in BNP attacks on October 28. Out of them, more than 20 reporters were working in BNP beat for long, he said.

The information minister said BNP-Jamaat killed journalists whenever they were in power. About 14 journalists including Humayun Kabir Balu, Manik Saha, Saiful Islam Mukul and Shamsur Rahman in Jashore and Khulna were killed during BNP regime, he said.

Dr Hasan said BNP leaders sounded highly that they would resist the upcoming election by creating tough movements along with their allies.