BNP wants to create instability: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said BNP's recent programmes have proved that they want to create instability in the country.

"They (BNP) had carried out arson terrorism centering December 10. They have declared sit-in protest on January 11 and they would try to create an unstable situation over the programmes too," he said.

"We remained alert on December 10. They had called for a mass procession on December 30 in Dhaka. We remained alert on that day too. We will give a befitting reply along with the common people if BNP wants to create anarchies in the name of (political) programmes in future."

Hasan said this to reporters replying to a query at the meeting room of his ministry at Secretariat in the capital.

He said there is no bar in observing peaceful programmes by BNP and the government is assisting them and will assist in upcoming days also. But, the countrymen would resist them (BNP), if they want to carry out violence in the name of political programmes and Awami League will remain beside the masses, he added.

Replying to a query, the minister said BNP has been seeking the fall of the government for the last 13 and a half years. They were behind the BDR mutiny and the party wanted the resignation of the government after the incident, he added.

He said they must come in the polls if the party wants to oust the government and should prove their popularity. There is no other way to topple the government as it is a democratic state system, said Hasan.

But BNP doesn't believe in this and they want to catch fish in muddled water, he added.