BNP yesterday alleged that the expulsion of three local Awami League leaders have exposed that ruling party men were the masterminds of the communal attacks on the Hindus and their homes and worship places in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar upazila, UNB reports. The party also demanded the government resign shouldering its failure to ensure security for common people and improve the deteriorating law and order. Speaking at a press conference at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, BNP vice-chairman Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed also demanded that a judicial probe body be formed headed by an apex court Justice to unearth facts behind the incident.
On Friday, a six-member BNP delegation, led by Hafiz, visited the sectarian attack-hit Nasirnagar and talked to victims and locals. The press conference was arranged to present the findings of the BNP delegation on the incident. “Though the current government is unelected, we want to thank it as it has exposed before people who carried out the Nasirnagar incidents by punishing its party leaders,” Hafiz said.
On Friday, Brahmanbaria district unit Awami League suspended its three leaders on charges of their involvement in the recent attacks on the Hindu community in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district. The action was taken against Nasirnagar upazila unit AL assistant general secretary and Sadar union parishad chairman Abul Hossain, its Haripur union unit president Faruk Ahmed and Chapoitala union unit president Suruj Ali. On October 30, an unruly mob equipped with sharp weapons went berserk and demolished a number of Hindu temples and nearly 100 houses in Nasirnagar upazila following a rumour of a Facebook post demeaning the holy Kaaba. Hafiz said the ruling party tried to defuse the tension by suspending its leaders. “Now it has become clear to people like the daylight who are the masterminds of the incidents for destroying the country’s communal harmony.” He alleged that ruling party men are not only involved in Nasirnagar incident, but also they have direct or indirect connections with all other communal attacks taken place over the last seven years. About their Nasirnagar visit, the BNP vice chairman said, “We didn’t go there to do politics. We’ve got deeply shocked seeing the intensity of the attacks. We don’t have suitable words to denounce the incident. We’ve got stunned by such attacks on Hindu families in independent Bangladesh.” He said grabbing of Hindus’ assets and property could be one of the reasons for the attacks as the ruling party men have long been doing so at different parts of the country.