Chief adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Saturday accused the ‘fallen’ Bangladesh Awami League of carrying out an ‘orchestrated campaign’ against chief adviser Profssor Muhammad Yunus portraying him as an ‘extremist leader’ surrounded by extremists.
‘Look at their messages — their message is 3000 police died, their message is Yunus is an extremist leader; their message is Yunus is surrounded by extremist leaders. It is a very well-orchestrated campaign,’ Alam said, adding that the Indian media is also involved in this campaign.
Pointing finger at the AL people, the press secretary said that Hasina’s oligarchs are spending millions of dollars to create a new narrative challenging the July mass uprising in their efforts to make the global community understand that it was not an uprising but a big conspiracy.
The press secretary was speaking at the unveiling ceremony of a book titled Droher Graffiti - Graffiti of Treachery: The Mass Uprising of 24 by BSS journalist GM Rajib Hossain at Jatiya Press Club as a special guest.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was the chief guest at the event. JPC president and editor of the Daily Kaler Kantho poet Hasan Hafiz presided over the event. Senior journalists Quader Gani Chowdhury, Syed Abdal Ahmed and others spoke at the event.
Press secretary Alam said that the Awami League and the ‘fallen autocracy, the mother of thieves and the mother of disappearances’ want to challenge the narrative of Bangladesh.
Referring to Yunus’ decades of public life and his global repute, he said they need to document all the incidents.
Alam said that they, through research, would let all know the facts and hold seminars on all the campuses so that ‘fallen autocrat and her followers’ could not make a return.
The press secretary referred to the period after the 1971 Liberation struggle to 1972 and observed that they were weak in documentation.
Stating that Yunus has called on everyone to remain calm, Alam said that their job was to highlight the horrors of 15 years through research.
‘We will hold seminars on every campus. We will write the injustices she had done on every wall, so that the dictatorship that fell in Bangladesh and its associates cannot return. We have to do this.’