report in The Daily Star, July 10, 2023
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP has secret ties with Israel and its intelligence agency.
“The meeting between a representative of the Israeli intelligence agency and a senior BNP leader was exposed to the media. BNP is always involved in such anti-state activities,” he said in a statement.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has made a false statement about the use of Israeli technology to hack the phones of opposition leaders.
Such an irresponsible statement, delivered by a political leader, is very shameful, he said.
Recalling Bangladesh’s historic relations with Palestine, he said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had invited Yasser Arafat, the then president of Palestine, during the celebration of the silver jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence.
Quader said Fakhrul could not present any specific evidence about phone hacking and that is why it is illegal to make sweeping comments on such a sensitive issue without any evidence.
He said Fakhrul’s concocted statement is nothing but the continuation of their ongoing propaganda and rumour.
Fakhrul has been involved in conspiratorial activities aiming to influence the country’s people and foreigners with false and fabricated information, he added.
Quader said the government agencies are always active to suppress anti-state subversive activities and ensure peace and law and order, while the government shows respect to all rights of the people as per the country’s constitution.
He said AL has established the voting rights of people through a long struggle.
The ruling party came to power with people’s mandate and this constitutional and democratic process would continue in the future too, he added.
“We urge BNP leaders to shun their anti-election stance and participate in the upcoming national elections and focus on democratic politics,” he said.
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