The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that it would ensure justice through proper investigation into all incidents of persecution against minorities, including Hindus, if the party returns to power.
鈥榃e are considering the eight-point that you [Hindus] mentioned...we have our full sympathy for the core issue of the eight-point demands, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said during a visit to the Puja mandap at Dhakeshwari Temple on the first day of Durga Puja.
鈥榃e can tell you that just as we have supported you in every crisis in the past, we will continue to stand by you in the future as well,鈥� he said.
In an oblique reference to the Awami League, the BNP leader said that it was unfortunate but true that the members of a particular political party, which claims to be the greatest saviour of the minority community, were involved in all the incidents of repression against them in the past.
He said that the AL people were also behind the incidents involving the occupation of land and property belonging to Hindu in Bangladesh.
鈥業f our party forms government in the future, each incident will be investigated impartially, and justice will be ensured,鈥� Fakhrul said, adding that some foreign media were spreading propaganda against the communal harmony in Bangladesh with biased and false reports.
鈥業 won鈥檛 say nothing happened. Some of the incidents that happened were not communal in nature but political incidents,鈥� he said.
At the beginning, Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad general secretary Santosh Sharma highlighted the eight-point demand of their community, calling for justice and exemplary punishment for the injustices and abuses suffered by minorities.
