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NAT 'L MOURNING DAY

Huda blamed for foiling AL programme

Staff Correspondent
The main opposition Awami League (AL) yesterday accused the communications minister of directing the ruling BNP cadres to attack and foil AL's programme on National Mourning Day in Dohar on Monday.
"Nazmul Huda was present during the attack and it is his party cadres who swooped on AL leaders and workers with firearms, wood sticks and brickbats," said Asaduzzaman Noor MP, central publicity affairs secretary of the AL.
Addressing a press conference, Noor and other leaders of the party gave details of the attack and said on return of the party chief and other senior leaders from Tungipara today they would enforce programmes protesting the attack.
Noor alleged that a few days ago Nazmul Huda declared to thwart any programme on the death anniversary of Bangabandhu in Dohar.
"He (Huda) directed his party cadres to observe the day as Nazat day (a day of emancipation) and birth anniversary of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia," the actor turned politician Noor added.
He said the ruling party cadres with the help of local police grabbed the main venue of mourning day programme and started Khaleda's birthday celebration.
The BNP cadres also vandalised other makeshift tents and looted food for the destitute, he added.
Noor said at the directives of the minister, police began massive drive to arrest AL leaders and workers and put them behind the bar in false cases.
Police also barred them from attending the programme venue saying that they would not be able to provide security, he added.
"BNP cadres also fired gunshots targeting the microbus by which we were fleeing the scene after failing to attend the mourning day programme," Noor said.
Over 200 people including journalists were injured as a band of BNP cadres opened fire and hurled brickbats on an AL rally in Dohar on that day.
AL leaders Abdul Mannan Khan and Ashim Kumar Ukil, who came under the attack, were present at the press conference held at party's Dhanmondi office.
Meanwhile, Nazmul Huda categorically denied his involvement in attacking the AL rally at his constituency in Dohar.
HUDA'S DENIAL
Talking to a group of journalists yesterday, he termed the newspaper reports as 'absolutely false' and 'fabricated'.
"There might be a lot of bloodshed had I not been there," Huda claimed.
"I told my workers that the day is very significant as it is the death anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and birth anniversary of our prime minister. So we should not interfere in each other's programme," he added.