Honouring Mujib, Zia may pave way for nat’l unity: BNP

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said that the process for national unity might begin with showing due respects to late presidents Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman.
At a briefing at the party’s central office, BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon made the remarks welcoming recent statements of ruling Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam that urged all to form a national unity and to put an end to politics of division.
Ripon said that Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also former president and prime minister, should get his due honours and similarly, late president Ziaur Rahman, who, he said, proclaimed the independence should be honoured.
He said that ‘hatred’ and ‘venomous’ personal attacks on the leaderships of the political parties must be stopped to move ahead for the national unity.
He said that if derogatory remarks continued to be made in and outside parliament against the opposition, speaking about national unity would bring no results.
Ripon said that the BNP condemned incidents of August 15, 1975 and August 21, 2004 grenade attack and wanted trial of the perpetrators.
He also said that the BNP never differed about the 1971 war crimes trial.
He asked whether the government actually wanted to hold the trial of August 21 grenade attack or to prolong it to gain political interest.
He claimed that conspirators had tried to overthrow BNP government in ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘undemocratic’ way through staging the grenade attack on August 21, 2004.
Ripon came down hard on the prime minister for her recent statement in parliament blaming BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for the cancellation of generalised scheme of preference of Bangladesh products in the US market.
He said that the BNP and Khaleda always carried out efforts for the restoration GSP facilities.
BNP leaders including Selima Rahman, Golam Akbar Khokdakar, Noor-e-Ara Safa, MA Malek, Abul Kalam Azad, Abdul Maleq, Taqdir Hossain Jasim and Abdus Sattar, among others, were present.

- See more at: http://newagebd.net/156976/honouring-mujib-zia-may-pave-way-for-natl-unity-bnp/#sthash.HcvJ3QMv.dpuf