Bangladesh party claims bid to relaunch Awami League with new name at ‘India’s behest’

DHAKA: A contemporary controversy convulsed Bangladesh on Friday after the National Citizen Party (NCP), launched by Nahid Islam – man who led the anti-Sheikh Hasina motion – alleged that efforts are being made by the “army” to relaunch the Awami League below a new name, “Refined Awami League“, as a part of an India-sponsored conspiracy.
The allegations got here on a day the military had to be deployed in Dhaka alongside with police in view of demonstrations by pupil teams and hardline Islamist organisation Hefazat-e-Islam to demand a ban on the Awami League. On Thursday, Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus mentioned there are not any plans to ban the Awami League however people inside its management will probably be tried for “crimes against humanity”.
In a Facebook submit, NCP chief Hasnat Abdullah mentioned the proposal for this “Refined Awami League, led by Awami league members Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and Fazle Noor Taposh” was positioned earlier than him and two others on March 11 by “the cantonment”, an obvious reference to the military.
Referring to the final 12 months “July uprising” that led to the ouster of the Hasina-led Awami League govt, he mentioned, “In July, your powerful movement helped us discard all prescriptions from cantonment and agencies. If you stand by us again today, if you join us on the streets, we will once again defeat this Indian conspiracy to rehabilitate the Awami League.”
“We were asked to accept the proposal in exchange for a seat-sharing agreement for the next national election,” Hasnat mentioned, including, “at the cantonment, we were told that more than one political party has already been given this proposal, and they have agreed to the rehabilitation of the Awami League on certain conditions.”
He didn’t inform who approached him. “We were further told that those who will lead this ‘Refined Awami League’ will start publicly admitting to the crimes of the Sheikh family from April-May onwards, distancing themselves from Hasina while pledging allegiance only to Bangabandhu’s Awami League.” The proposal, he mentioned, was instantly rejected with the assertion that efforts must be made to prosecute Awami members.
In Oct final 12 months, ex-environment minister Saber Chowdhury was free of jail after bail in all six instances filed towards him, whereas Shirin Chaudhury & Taposh weren’t arrested.