Reiterating that Khondaker Mostaq and Ziaur Rahman were the masterminds behind the conspiracy of killing Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that she would never let their objectives be successful.
“I only want that the conspiracies for which the Father of the Nation was killed on August 15 (in 1975), will not be successful. Their target was to make Bangladesh a failed state alongside foiling achievements of Bangladesh’s independence and destroying the ideal of the Liberation War,” she told a memorial meeting joining virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence here.
Dhaka North and South City units of Awami League organized the discussion marking the National Mourning Day and the 46th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital.
Dhaka North City AL President Sheikh Bazlur Rahman presided over the discussion while Dhaka South City AL President and General Secretary Abu Ahmed Monnafi and Humayun Kabir, spoke on the occasion.
Dhaka South and North City AL Vice Presidents Nurul Amin Ruhul, MP, and Abdul Quader Khan, Joint General Secretaries, Quazi Morshed Hossain Kamal, and Motiur Rahman Moti, Organising Secretaries Akter Hossain and M Azizul Haque Rana also took part in the meeting.
General Secretary of Dhaka North City AL SM Mannan Kochi moderated the function.
A special munajat (prayer) was offered seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of the martyrs of the August 15, 1975 carnage.
At the outset of the meeting, a minute’s silence was observed as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the martyrs of the August 15, 1975 carnage.
Referring to recent BNP-police clash at Chandrima Udyan, the Prime Minister questioned why the party engaged in clashes with the police as they know Ziaur Rahman’s body was not in the grave there.
“BNP clashed (with police) at Chandrima Udyan. Doesn’t the BNP know there is no grave or body of Zia or Zia is not there? They know well. If so, why do they stage the drama? Khaleda Zia knows well too.”
The Prime Minister questioned whether Khaleda Zia or Tarique Zia could say that they ever saw Zia’s body (in the box that was taken from Chattogram) as a bullet-hit body can easily be recognized. Actually, none saw Zia’s body in the box, she said.
She said she heard from HM Ershad that a body with a combat dress was in the box, adding that Zia was the President at that time and a president could not wear combat dress.
“Don’t BNP men know that the President can’t wear a combat dress?” she questioned.
Sheikh Hasina, also President of the Awami League, said that those who considered the country’s attaining independence as their defeat killed the Father of the Nation along with most of his family members with some local collaborators on August 15, 1975.
Ziaur Rahman, who never fought at the field level for the country during the Liberation War, was the main source of power of Khondaker Mostaq to materialize the conspiracy of killing Bangabandhu, she said, adding that Ziaur Rahman was also involved in the killing of four national leaders inside the jail.
