NARAYANGANJ: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan alleged that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is involved in the conspiracy of killing Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president.
He made the allegation Saturday noon while addressing the handover ceremony of a Ro-Ro ferry ‘Keramat Ali’ at Sonakanda dockyard in Narayanganj port area.
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) modernized the ferry.
Shahjahan Khan, as chief guest of the program, said that BNP chief is jealous about country’s prosperity.
“The party (BNP) is working as an agent of Pakistan for assuming power,” he alleged: “They are burning people by the cadres of Jamaat-Shibir.”
Narayanganj-5 lawmaker AKM Selim Osman and senior secretary of home affairs ministry Dr Mozammel Haque Khan, among others, were present at the program, chaired by Narayanganj Dockyard and Engineering Works managing director (MD) Commodore M Khurshid Malik.
BDST: 1830 HRS, JAN 17, 2015