DHAKA, Aug 22, 2021 (BSS) – Freedom fighters, lawmakers, academicians and researchers at a webinar on Saturday said the gruesome August 21 grenade attacks were carried out to make the nation as well as the Awami League (AL), which led the country’s great Liberation War, leaderless.

“The then administration can’t deny the labiality of the August 21 grenade attacks. BNP government’s role over the incident was blameful and ridiculous,” AL Advisory Council Member Dr Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir, MP, told a webinar on National Mourning Day joining it from the USA.       

He demanded confiscation of properties of those who will be punished in the cases filed over the August 21 grenade attacks.

Jatiya Nirbachan Parjabekkhan Parishad (Janipop) founding chairman Prof Dr Major Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah chaired the webinar while valiant freedom fighter Captain (retd) Sachin Karmaker joined it as the special guest from India.

Member of the board of directors of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and its City Editor Madhusudan Mondal addressed it as the chief discussant while columnist and researcher Pinaki Bhattacharya delivered the welcome address joining it from India.

Prof Kalimullah said the perpetrators of the August 15 carnage didn’t stop their evil attempts after assassinating Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members, rather they carried out repeated attempts to kill the rest of two members of Bangabandhu’s family who escaped the carnage.  
   
Gruesome grenade attacks were carried out on August 21 in 2004 on AL rally to make the party leaderless, he said.

In his address, Sanchin Karmaker demanded completion of the trial process of the cases filed over the grenade attacks within quickest possible time.

Madhusudan Mondal prayed for eternal peace of departed souls of those who were killed in the August 21 grenade attacks.

“We should always remain alert after taking lesson from the incident,” he said.

Pinaki Bhattacharya said Bangabandhu in his landmark March 7 speech gave the directives and outlines to the Bangalee nation for achieving the great independence.  
 
UN Disability Human Rights Champion Abdus Sattar Dulal, Royal University of Bangladesh Associate Professor Dipu Siddique, writer and researcher Mohammad Habibur, Begum Rokeya University Statistics Department Associate Professor Dr Md Rashidul Islam, Janipop’s national volunteers Md Ariful Islam and Afsana Sony addressed the webinar, among others.