Expulsion of leaders prove AL's involvement in attacks on Hindus : BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday alleged that the ruling Awami League was involved in the attacks on Hindus at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria. The party’s vice-chairman M Hafiz Uddin Ahmed at a press conference at BNP chairperson’s office at Gulshan said, ‘Expulsion of three local Awami League leaders proved that the ruling party was involved with the synchronised attack on the Hindus at Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria’. He came up with the allegation after a BNP team led by Hafiz visited the devastated areas in Nasirnagar upazila on Friday. Hafiz demanded that the government form a judicial inquiry to identify the real perpetrators and bring them to book. Brahmanbaria district Awami League on Friday suspended three local leaders of Nasirnagar upazila unit on allegation of their involvement in instigating and carrying out attack on Hindus. Brahmanbaria district Awami League general secretary Al Mamun Sarkar said that Nasirnagar upazila AL assistant publicity secretary MA Hashem, also Nasirnagar union parishad chairman, Haripur union AL president Faruk Miah and Chapartola union AL president Suraj Ali were suspended Friday night. ‘We have suspended the three leaders as media have reported their alleged involvement in the instigations and attacks on the religious minorities,’ he said. About 200 houses and business establishments and 22 temples of Hindus were vandalised and robbed by groups of local Muslims on October 30. Activists of Awami League, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Hefazat-e-Islam as well as goons from outlying villages, who joined protest rallies at Nasirnagar on October 30, instigated and carried out attacks on the Hindus, local people and victims alleged.

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