DHAKA, July 17, 2024 (BSS) – Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said that six students were killed due to BNP-Jamaat’s politics of dead bodies while the government is compassionate to the students agitating for quota reform in government jobs.
 
“The government is compassionate to general students. But the quota movement is not in their hands (now). Currently, programmes are being prescribed by BNP-Jamaat,” he said.
 
Hasan, also ruling Awami League (AL) joint general secretary, said this, addressing a discussion as the chief guest at the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) here, said a press release.
 
Bangladesh Swadhinata Parishad organized the discussion to mark the AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s imprisonment day.
 
The foreign minister said BNP-Jamaat wanted corpses to fish in troubled water and they have been able to fulfil their target through the killings of six students. “BNP-Jamaat terrorists played the prime role to create the anarchy across the country on Tuesday,” he added.
 
Noting that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is sympathetic to the students, Hasan said, “Those who misinterpreted the Prime Minister's speech and chanted slogans in favor of Razakars in Dhaka University are being identified. They do not contain the spirit of the Liberation War.”
 
He urged the agitating students to wait until the court proceedings are completed over the quota issue, saying the government cannot intervene in any sub-judice matter.
 
Speaking about Sheikh Hasina’s imprisonment day, the AL joint general secretary said Sheikh Hasina was arrested on July 16 in 2007 without any warrant.
 
But AL leaders and activists forced the then military-backed caretaker government by waging tremendous movement at grassroots level to free Bangabandhu’s daughter Sheikh Hasina, Hasan added.
 
State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Md Abdul Wadud spoke at the discussion as the main speaker while Agriculturist Dr Awlad Hossain, MP, AL leaders Advocate Balram Poddar and MA Karim, and Swadhinata Parishad President Jinnat Ali Khan also spoke, among others.
 
Member of AL sub-committee on industries and commerce Lion Mashiur Ahmed presided over the discussion while Swadhinata Parishad General Secretary Shahadat Hossain Toyel conducted it.