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AL, BNP trade blames

Staff Correspondent
The ruling Awami League and the main opposition BNP yesterday again blamed each other for the recent “coup attempt” put down by the army.
The two archrivals also accused one another of fresh links with all the coups that have taken place in the military since 1975.
The blame game began after the army on Thursday at a rare press conference announced the unearthing off a “coup plot” hatched by some retired and serving officers against the present democratic government.
Both the parties have already expressed their formal reactions on the matter.
"Isn't it usual that her [BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's] ultimatum and the ill attempt have links?” Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said at a press conference at the party's Dhanmondi office yesterday.
The BNP has repeatedly used the patriotic army to grab state power and thus made the force controversial in its course of the politics of murder, coup and conspiracy, he said.
Later in the day, the BNP's acting secretary general Fakhrul reiterated his party’s claim that not his party but AL was involved in all the "military interventions" in the country's politics.
“Awami League men were involved in the assassinations of Sheikh Mujib in 1975 and Ziaur Rahman in 1981, the military coup in 1982, and in forming the unconsti-tutional government in 2007," he said while addressing a discussion at Diploma Engineers Institution.
It was clear to the people who were involved with the recent “coup plan”, the opposition leader said, claiming that the killers of late president Ziaur Rahman were behind such an attempt.
Criticising the AL's allegations that the BNP had links to the anti-state plot, Fakhrul said, “It won't be wise to talk about a matter which is still under investigation. The BNP always believes in a democratic process to transform power.”
On Sunday, BNP in its first official statement on the army announcement accused AL of involvement in the latest “coup attempt” as well as the other coups in the armed forces.
At yesterday's press conference, Syed Ashraf, also LGRD and cooperative minister, said the failed putsch would continue to have an impact until the responsible were identified and brought to the book.
He also said an investigation into the incident was underway and many had been identified. Drive will be carried out to arrest them.
"The Awami League wanted a national consensus on the issue for the sake of democracy. But they have spoken very irresponsibly,” Ashraf said, referring to the BNP's statement.
"Instead of responding to our call to be united, they [BNP] blatantly lied, suggesting that the Awami League was involved in all the coups in the country," theALspokesman said.
Ashraf said his party had organised the press briefing yesterday in reply to the BNP's reaction over the issue.
Pointing to BNP acting secretary general's Sunday's remarks, he said, "He has propagated some peculiar, unexpected and baseless fictions."