The allegation of BNP that the Awami League activists have attacked the BNP nominated Mayoral candidate in the Gabtoli area on Tuesday (Jan.21) might be a plot, said Dr. Hassan Mahmud, Information Minister.
Hasan Mahmud, a joint general secretary of the ruling party, believes that the BNP itself plotted the attack as part of a conspiracy to pull the elections into question.
I think a quarter is actively working to taint the election atmosphere and it is important to check if they plotted it [the attack], Hasan, who is also the information minister, told reporters at the Secretariat in the capital on Tuesday.
The BNP has been trying to make the elections questionable since the beginning through a series of incidents. So, it also needs to be checked whether it [attack on Tabith] is part of that process, he added.
Tabith alleged that he and his supporters came under attack during an election campaign in the presence of police in Dhaka’s Gabtoli earlier in the day.
He blamed the supporters of Awami League-backed councilor candidate Mujib Sarwar Masum for the attack.