None will be allowed to make water troubled over Barisal incident: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud Friday warned that none would be allowed to make water turbid by capitalizing the Barisal incident.

"It would not be right to talk too much or do anything (about the

Barishal incident) until the probe reveals the truth," he told reporters after attending a function on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Academy premises in city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Friday afternoon.

Dhaka north city's ward-26 unit of AL arranged the food distribution programme on the occasion of the National Mourning Day, a ministry press release said.

Replying to a question over the recent attack on the official residence of Barishal Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer, Hasan said: "The incident of Barishal was unfortunate and very regretful. The position of our party is very clear. Our leader, Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina, always takes harsher action if any party man is found involved in any misdeed."

Mentioning that two cases were filed in connection with the incident and it is still under investigation, the AL joint general secretary said the local AL claimed that 60 people suffered bullets

and many others were injured in this incident.

"I don't want to talk much about such an incident, which is now under investigation. Once allegations will be proved against any person on the basis of the probe, action will be taken accordingly," he said.

Responding to another query, Hasan said: "I saw a hasty statement from the Administration Cadres Association. The probe will reveal what actually happened. At the same time, it will expose the fact about the allegations of the local Awami League. But none will be allowed to make the water troubled by capitalising the incident."

Speaking at the meeting earlier, the information minister paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and those who were killed in the August 15 carnage at the onset of his speech.

"The August is the month of mourning for Banglees. In August, we lost the greatest Bangalee of all time Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the world poet Rabindranath Tagore and the rebellious poet Kazi Nazrul Islam," he added.

He said Bangabandhu inspired people and as a result, the Bangalees jumped into the 1971 Liberation War risking their lives and  snatched the red sun of independence. "That is why Bangabandhu is the greatest Bengalee of all time," Hasan added.

AL office secretary Barrister Biplob Barua, Dhaka north city AL president Sheikh Bazlur Rahman and general secretary SM Mannan Kochi, among others, spoke at the meeting with president of Dhaka north city's ward-26 AL Alhaj Md Furkan Hossain.