Industries Minister and Awami League Advisory Council member Amir Hossain Amu yesterday said plotters appeared to be more active in recent period as the country witnessed continued development under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership over the years, reports BSS. “Sheikh Hasina will have to face more conspiracies, the more the country will progress,” he told a National Mourning Day discussion titled “Mritunjoyee Bangabandhu’ held at the central auditorium of Jagannath University organized by the Blue Panel, a forum of teachers there. But, he said, the nation would continue to progress under her leadership and expressed the hope that Bangladesh would earn the status of a rich country by 2041 particularly using its marine resources. The minister, however, urged the party leaders and activists to enforce a sharp vigil against the plots and refrain from activities which could harm the image of the Prime Minister and blur the achievements of the country under her stewardship.
He said the plotters staged the August 15, 1975 putsch and carried out the August 21, 2004 grenade attack with an identical objective to put the country in the “Pakistani track”. “The conspiracy which Ziaur Rahman initiated in 1975, BNP leader Khaleda Zia is now carrying it on and the August 21 attack came as sequel of that old plot,” Amu said. He said efforts were made to portray the August 15 carnage just the murder of a person while “actually it was part of a deep rooted plot to make the country a new Pakistan”. Vice-Chancellor of the university Professor Dr Mizanur Rahman, Treasurer Prof M Selim Bhuiyan, Arts Faculty Dean Prof M Lutfur Rahman, Acting President of Jagannath University Teachers Association Dr M Maniruzzaman, General Secretary Prof Dr M Abul Hossen and Convener of the National Mourning Day Celebration Committee Prof Dr Quazi Saifuddin, among others addressed the discussion, chaired by Blue Panel President Professor Dr AKM Maniruzzaman.