PM, others slate media for picturing Liton as bad man

Gaibandha lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton was killed as he waged resistance against the evil force, Jamaat and Shibir, when they unleashed a reign of terror in the area, prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other cabinet members told the parliament on Sunday. 
Sheikh Hasina and home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, while talking in condolence motion on Gaibandha 1 lawmaker Manjurul on the opening sitting of the 14th session, assured that killers and plotters of the killing would be booked and get exemplary punishment.
Ruling Awami League MP for Gaibandha’s Sundarganj constituency was shot dead by unidentified assailants in his village home on December 31.
Sheikh Hasina said that Manjurul’s constituency was ‘den of terrorist and Jammat-Shibir’.
In February 2013, BNP-Jamaat-Shibir carried out atrocities in the Gaibandha, Sundarganj and Palashbari areas. They killed at least four policemen attacking police camp, set fire to Muktijhoddha Sangshad and 150 houses, businesses of Awami League leaders and activist and attacked railway station, said Sheikh Hasina.
In 2014, in bid to foil general election BNP Jamaat alliance, specially Jamaat patrolled Dhaka Rangpur highway with arms, they attacked bus, trucks, killed at least nine people by setting fire to buses in Tulshighat, killed Chhatra League leaders and attacked law enforcers, she said.
‘Manjurul with people of the constituency resisted these attacks and it became dangerous for him,’ said the prime minister, adding that ‘it seems that Manjurul’s main crime was that he resisted extremism and arson attacks’.
‘Manjurul was unfortunately branded as attacker of a child. Why would he shoot a child whose father is an Awami League supporter?’ Hasina asked, blaming the media for so many negative news about the incident. 
‘We would find out the plotters and killers and provide them exemplary punishment,’ Hasina added.
Earlier, lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta blamed BNP leader Khaleda Zia as the number one accused of Manjurul Killing. 
Cabinet members Shahriar Alam, Junayed Ahmed Palak, chief whip ASM Feroz, lawmakers Shamim Osman, Mahabub Ara Begum Gini and others said that a quarter of media had branded Manjurul as a bad man which had undermined Manjurul’s security.
Deputy speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah and ASM Feroj said that killing of Manjurul was ‘planned’. They all said that Manjurul made blank fire in order to save his life but unfortunately it injured a nine-year-old boy at Sundarganj in 2015.
A the beginning of the session, speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury moved a condolence motion in the house with separate obituary references on Manjurul Islam and four others including former lawmaker and cabinet member Mostofa Faruk Mohammad, former Gana Parishad members Abul Hossain and Abdul Hakim and former lawmaker Jafrul Hasan Farhad, who passed away after prorogation of the 13th session of Jatiya Sangsad.
The parliament also moved condolence motion on the death of former Iranian president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Indian state Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, former chief justice MM Ruhul Amin, justice Bazlur Rahman, anthropologist Helal Uddin Khan Shamsul Arefin, prime minister’s special assistant Mahbubul Alam Shakil and others. 
The parliament sent into the fourteenth session after a 44 day recess, with Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. As part of the tradition, president Abdul Hamid addressed the house in the first session of a year.
The current session of the 10th parliament will continue until March 9, decided a meeting of the business advisory committee. 
Each working day the session will start at 4:30pm, while a general discussion on the president’s speech will be held.

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