by Nishat Sultana Brishti
Something wrong is definitely going on in Bangladesh! Senior minister and general secretary of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League, Syed Ashraful Islam said a section of media in Bangladesh are "trying to create ground for quarters, who are hatching conspiracy to assassin Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He said that the conspiracy to kill Sheikh Hasina had not stopped and the plotters were looking for chances to destabilize the situation with that motive.
"A new plot is under way to kill Sheikh Hasina and the quarters who attempted to kill her on August 21, 2004, are again out to destabilize the situation," Syed Ashraf said.
He said, "Some newspapers are looking for an Anna Hazare in Bangladesh and some television channels are depicting exaggerated pictures of a few events and thereby helping the conspirators who are looking for a ground to destabilize the situation and kill her."
The minister was critical on local media as it is continuing to publish commentaries saying, Bangladesh also needs an "Anna Hazare" to begin crusade against corruption. He said, "Why the media were looking for an Anna Hazare in Bangladesh? Has corruption gobbled up the whole country?"
Accusing Bangladeshi intelligence agencies:
Another senior leader of the ruling party, Suranjit Sen Gupta said, "Bangladesh's military intelligence [DGFI] and non-military intelligence agency [NSI] jointly conspired to assassin Sheikh Hasina."
It may be mentioned here that, Suranjit Sen Gupta joined the military controlled caretaker government's attempt in ousting Sheikh Hasina and BNP leader Khaleda Zia from politics. Later the matter was disclosed in public and Suranjit was termed as one of the members of anti-democracy gang named RATS [Razzak, Amu, Tofael and Suranjit].
Statements of both the ministers are surely worrisome. Suranjit Sen Gupta has, for the first time, publicly accused the defense intelligence agency and national security intelligence agency in Bangladesh as, conspirators of assassinating the present Prime Minister. Through this statement he in other words has clearly labeled both the agencies as enemies of democracy. When a senior politician and a lawmaker of the ruling party make such comments, people may raise questions about the hidden intention or agenda of this politician. By pronouncing these words, Suranjit Sen Gupta clearly left the signal of total distrust of Bangladesh Awami League on country's armed forces and intelligence agencies. No where in the world, a politician or ruling party law maker could ever make such seditious comment against country's own armed forces and intelligence agencies. But, Suranjit Sen Gupta did. And people are aware of his "international connections". Does this statement of Mr. Gupta signal that, government of Bangladesh Awami League is now going to down-size army's power significantly, or even may wrap up these intelligence agencies? Through this comment, Mr. Suranjit Sen Gupta has surely labeled Bangladesh army and the intelligence agencies as "conspirators and betrayers".
The mysterious Syed Hassan Imam:
During this meeting, where Syed Ashraful Islam and Suranjit Sen Gupta passed these remarks, an interesting character was also present. His name is Syed Hassan Imam, who fled to India right after the Udichi bomb blast, which killed large number of people. It may be mentioned here that, Syed Hassan Imam, who also was present at the function of Udichi, where the bomb exploded, left the spot hurriedly minutes before the blast, after he received a phone call. It was suspected by intelligence agencies that, Syed Hassan Imam was one of the conspirators behind this crime. When his name started appearing in Bangladeshi media, as abettor of Udichi bomb blast as well as Ramna batamul bomb blast, Syed Hassan Imam fled to India even though at that time, Bangladesh Awami League was in power. He was on exile in India for consecutive few years, as in 2001 Bangladesh Nationalist Party formed the government. This man came back to Bangladesh for two weeks in 2006, when Bangladesh Nationalist Party handed over power to caretaker government, and disappeared [went back to India possibly] from the scene again, when military controlled caretaker government grabbed power. The very presence of Syed Hassan Imam in the meeting, where two of the senior members of the ruling party made extremely questionable comments is a mystery.
Allegation of the Prime Minister:
On numerous occasions, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged that military controlled caretaker government tried to poison her number of times, when she was in custody on corruption charges. It may be mentioned here that, the caretaker government was indirectly under the command of General Moeen U Ahmed, who was using Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed as a mere con to run the show of the caretaker government. Everyone in Bangladesh and abroad were aware, General Moeen U Ahmed was actually controlling the caretaker government of Dr. Fakhruddin.
As the Prime Minister of Bangladesh has categorically brought the allegation of attempts by the caretaker government of poisoning her, it is still a huge mystery as to why the ruling party or state machinery has not taken any legal measures against General Moeen U Ahmed and others in the caretaker government for alleged "assassination attempt of Sheikh Hasina."
It was rumored that, Bangladesh Awami League was set in power by General Moeen U Ahmed and his team, through an "engineered election". Though such claims were seriously lacking any solid base [except few examples of irregularities during the election, where ballot papers with pre-stamping on the symbol of Awami League were found in a number of places in the country], Awami League or Sheikh Hasina's reluctance in lodging formal complaint against General Moeen U Ahmed and others in the caretaker government, for their heinous attempt of poisoning Sheikh Hasina [who now is the prime minister] is a big mystery. Such reluctance of Awami League and Sheikh Hasina, may wrongly interpret as their underhand understanding with General Moeen and his gang.
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