Hindustan Surkhiyan Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said that the government is not creating any interference in the trial of August 21 grenade attack case.
Quader, also the minister for Road Transport and Bridges, said this while talking to reporters at Patenga in Chittagong, reports our staff correspondent.
“It [August 21 grenade attack] was a brutal incident in which 22 people were killed including Ivy Rahman. The whole country knows that the attack was carried out with the planning of Hawa Bhaban,” Quader said.
“It is the court which will take decision on who was involved in the killing. Our judiciary is independent. We have no interference in this regard.”
The AL leader said many leaders of BNP are likely to be found involved in the grenade attack, therefore it can be said that their existence might be put into trouble to some extent if they are convicted in the case as the national election is coming nearer.
BNP cannot avoid its responsibility regarding the grenade attack, he added.
Earlier in the day, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed alleged that the government is trying to influence the verdict in the August 21 grenade attack case to implicate Khaleda and Tarique in a bid to hold another lopsided election.
Rizvi also warned that the government will not be able to resist its fall by making such an evil design.
Quader went to Chittagong today to oversee the ongoing construction work of a tunnel under the river Karnaphuli.
The minister said 24 percent construction works on the tunnel have been completed, reports UNB.
Deputy project director (admin) Dr Anupam Shaha showed tunnel boring machine (TBM) to the minister.
The four-lane tunnel under the river is being constructed aiming to build ‘One City Two Towns’ in light with Sanghai of China and Hong Kong, to strengthen the role of Chittagong as the centre of communications, develop the communications system of Dhaka-Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar national highway and create a link with the Asia Highway Network.
The main tunnel will be 3.4km long with two tubes. A 5.35-km approach road on the west and east sides of the tunnel and 727-metre over bridge will connect Anwara upazila with the port city, said the project director.
The digging work will start in October after putting the TBM in operation, he said.
