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Joy calls BNP terrorist party

Visits hartal arson victims at DMCH

Staff Correspondent
Against the backdrop of continued hartal violence which is leaving more and more people wounded every day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday termed the main opposition BNP a terrorist party rather than a political organisation.
"They [BNP| are a terrorist party, and they should be punished sternly," he said after visiting the people burnt in the recent BNP-led alliance's hartal at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
"What I saw here is completely inhumane and grievous. It's unbelievable that a political party can resort to such kind of atrocity."
Referring to eight-year-old Sumi, Joy said he could hardly hold back his tears
FROM PAGE 3 after seeing the burnt girl and that he could not think of it as himself being the father of a seven-year-old daughter.
"I expect that none will set fire to little kids like Sumi and no such indents |arsons during hartal] will ever occur in the country."
The premier's son promised legal actions against those involved in these heinous acts.
Replying to a question, he said such kind of atrocity had never taken place since the country's Liberation War in 1971. "This is no hartal. This is terrorism."
At the DMCH burn unit, Joy talked to Sumi, Montu Das who sustained 90 percent burns in the capital's Laxmi Bazar on Monday, and few others fighting for life there.
Joy assured some relatives of the victims of taking action against the culprits and donated Tk 20,000 to 30,000 each to several patients including Sumi, her grandmother, and Montu.
Meanwhile, families of some patients said they faced hurdles in meeting
their relatives at the burn unit due to Joy's visit, as law enforcers obstructed them on security grounds.
Hundreds of Bangladesh Chhatra League men of DMCH and Dhaka University welcomed Joy amid tight security.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque and Prime Minister's Health Adviser Syed Modasser Ali also visited the burns patients and talked to them, pledging better treatment.
Speaking at a press briefing there, Inu said BNP had been involved in the politics of killing through arsons. He urged opposition leader Khaleda Zia to be kind and allow those burns patients to visit hospitals by withdrawing the ongoing hartal.
Call off hartal and sit for dialogue to resolve the political crisis, he said.
Echoing Inu, Ruhal Haque said the opposition had the right to enforce hartal but not to burn people to death. He said the government was providing free treatment to those burnt during hartal.