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Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said that law enforcement agencies had been identifying criminals one by one.

He said, ‘Curfew was imposed to deal with the current situation. We have successfully controlled extremist rise and terrorist activities. Everything will be under control within the next 3-4 days.’

Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that action would be taken according to the merit of the cases, filed in connection with the killing of police and Ansar personnel and arson attacks on KPIs and other important public establishments centering quota reform movement.

‘We will take necessary measures after receiving the charge sheet of those cases,’ he told the journalists at a function to give financial support to the family members of police and Ansar members, who were killed by BNP-Jamaat cadres, in the name of quota reform movement at his ministry conference room.

The minister said that the anti-quota activists’ attack was planned wise, adding, ‘It is not possible to describe so clearly when and where the cases will be filed because cases are being filed every hour.’

He said that the BNP-Jamaat engaged in vandalism, arson attacks on KPIs specially BTV Bhaban, Disaster Management Bhaban, Shetu Bhaban, BRTA offices, metro rail stations, expressway toll plazas and other important establishments and killed policemen and Ansar with a motive centering the quota reform movement.

‘We have seen cruelty in this movement. We have seen brutality, destruction, Shetu Bhaban, BTV building burnt. Hundreds of years of archives have been destroyed in BTV. An office of the ministry of relief has been burnt. The internet systems on top of that office have also been destroyed,’ he added.

Mentioning Appellate Division verdict on quota, Kamal said that only five per cent freedom fighter’s son quota, which will not be effective because the freedom fighters’ children age have already crossed 30 years.

He raised a question to the agitators that after all this why the movement? ‘The government accepted all their demands. Jamaat-BNP created unrest through violence and arson attacks with a motive,’ he added.

Meanwhile, prime minister Sheikh Hasina rightly said that the judiciary is independent. During the 2018 agitation, the government abolished quota and after that, a writ petition was filed in the High Court.

In view of that application, the High Court gave a direction to re-introduce the quota.

‘The prime minister told the students that you go back. We will settle everything through the court. The students did not accept it and started the movement. We saw that the movement turned into violence. Our security forces, police, BGB and Ansar members have dealt with it with extreme patience,’ he said.

Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said, ‘Our dream project metro rail and elevated expressway had been burnt. They were going to attack police stations one after another and then the police fired for self-defence.’

Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that law enforcement agencies had been identifying criminals one by one, adding, ‘Curfew was imposed to deal the current situation. We have successfully controlled extremist rise and terrorist activities. Everything will be under control within next 3-4 days.’