Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday alleged ground is being created to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Addressing a discussion meeting, he said some of the country's television channels and newspapers are publishing "exaggerated reports" that might create instability in the society and help the conspirators to create the ground for killing her.
Awami League arranged the discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the afternoon in remembrance of the people killed in the August 21 grenade attack in 2004.
"A very deep conspiracy is on to destabilise the country and to kill
Sheikh Hasina," said Ashraful, also the LGRD minister.
He said the masterminds behind the August 15, 1975 bloodbath are still very much active in their bid to kill Hasina. "They know that Sheikh Hasina is in the centre of the spirit of all pro-liberation patriotic people."
Ashraful said that on August 15, 1975 the killers tried to annihilate the entire family of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana luckily escaped death as they were abroad.
"August 21 (in 2004) was another attempt to murder Sheikh Hasina," he said.
Chaired by AL presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by party presidium members Suranjit Sengupta and Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim.
Source : The Daily Star
