Indian media involved in AL’s “orchestrated campaign” against Dr Yunus: Press Secretary

Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Saturday accused the “fallen” Bangladesh Awami League (AL) of carrying out an “orchestrated campaign” against Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus portraying him as a “militant leader” surrounded by militants, report UNB. 

“Look at their messages – their message is 3000 police died, their message is Yunus is a militant leader; their message is Yunus is surrounded by militant leaders. It is a very well-orchestrated campaign,” Alam said, adding that the India media is also involved in this campaign.

Pointing finger at the AL people, the Press Secretary said Hasina’s (Sheikh Hasina’s) oligarchs are spending millions of dollars to create a new narrative challenging the July mass uprising in their efforts to make the global community understand that it was not an uprising but a big conspiracy.

The Press Secretary was speaking at a launching ceremony of a book titled “Droher Graffiti - Graffiti of Treachery: The Mass Uprising of 24‍‍` by BSS journalist GM Rajib Hossain at Jatiya Press Club as a special guest.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was the chief guest at the event. JPC President and Editor of the Daily Kaler Kantho poet Hasan Hafiz presided over the event. Senior Journalists Quader Gani Chowdhury, Syed Abdal Ahmed and others spoke at the event.

Press Secretary Alam said that the Awami League and the “fallen autocracy, the mother of thieves and the mother of disappearances” want to challenge the narrative of Bangladesh.

Referring to Dr Yunus’ decades of public life and his global repute, he said they need to document all the incidents.

Alam said they, through research, will let all know the facts and hold seminars in all the campuses so that “fallen autocrat and her followers” cannot make a return. 

The Press Secretary referred to the period after the 1971 Liberation struggle to 1972 and observed that they were weak in documentation.

Stating that Dr Yunus has called on everyone to remain calm, Alam said their job is to highlight the horrors of 15 years through research. “We will hold seminars in every campus. We will write the injustices she had done on every wall, so that the dictatorship that fell in Bangladesh and its associates cannot return. We have to do this.”