Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Saturday came up with an explanation of the comments made by the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and said Joy had actually wanted to mean that the Awami League would return to power if the party activists
could be more active before the next polls.‘Joy wanted to mean that the Awami League has a huge force of activists. If this force becomes more active in the field and the development works of the government can be properly projected, the people would vote Awami League to power in the next general elections,’ he said.
Addressing an Ifter party of Juba League in Dhaka on Tuesday, Joy said that he had ‘information’ that Awami League would return to power.
Hanif, also the spokesperson for the ruling Awami League, in a press briefing at the party chief’s Dhanmondi office said that Joy, the grandson of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had delivered a statement on the country’s existing socio-economic and political situation.
‘But the opposition BNP has embarked on misinterpretation of Joy’s comments to mislead the people, which reflected BNP’s politics of hostility,’ Hanif said adding that BNP had made a habit of spreading lies against the government and distorting comments of its rivals.
The AL joint general secretary reminded the BNP leaders that Joy had also said something about the misdeeds and corruption of the former prime minister’s son Tarique Rahman.
‘The people have not forgotten the misdeeds of the then alternative centre of power ‘Hawa Bhaban’. From this infamous house, Tarique used to make plots to kill progressive people, political leaders, writers, journalists and intellectuals and execute the plots,’ Hanif said reminding the BNP that Tarique was an accused in the cases of the deadly grenade attacks on an AL rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
Awami League organising secretaries Ahmed Hossain and BM Mozammel Haque, health affairs secretary Bodiuzzaman Bhuiyan, relief affairs secretary Faridunnahar Laily and deputy office secretary Mrinal Kanti Das were present at the press briefing.
-With New Age input
