Conspiracy on to overthrow grand-alliance: Ashraful

UNB, Kishoreganj

Awami League general secretary and LGRD minister Syed Ashraful Islam Saturday said anti-liberation elements and leaders of the past 4-party-alliance government are still conspiring to unseat the present government of the grand alliance.
To underpin his allegation he mentioned the February 25-26 bloody mutiny at the BDR headquarters that he said was staged to trigger a civil war and undo the people's electoral mandate.
"BDR massacre was staged within a few days of the formation of the government to overthrow the people's elected government through conspiracy," he said. "This massacre was not an isolated incident-it was aimed at creating a civil war to subvert people's mandate and unseat the elected government."
Ashraful, who came to his hometown Saturday on a 2-day visit, first after the last parliamentary elections that swept his party into power, made the remarks at a party meeting at Hossainpur Upazila auditorium.
The newly elected AL general secretary said immediately after Sheikh Hasina formed the government, they got down to serving the country while, at the same time, the anti-liberation force and leaders of the past coalition government who "looted national resources" engaged in an evil attempt to overthrow the government. "This conspiracy is still on," he claimed.