Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy alleged that BNP's democracy meant carrying out torture and oppression on the opposition party as the BNP-Jamaat government used to foil Awami League rallies through charging batons and firing tear gas.
He made the allegation in a Facebook post from his verified account on Tuesday evening.
A photograph of a news item of daily ‘Janakantho’ was also attached with the post, reports BSS.
In his post, Joy said after assuming power in 2001, the BNP-Jamaat government started launching oppression and torture on Awami League leaders and activists.
And even the government used to carry out subversive acts by 'marginal terrorist group' under the banner of 'Jatiayatabadi Bastuhara Dal' and fire tear-shell by police personnel, he said.
This pathetic incident was portrayed with the picture in a report published in the Dainik Janakantho on March 29, 2002, he said.
The report suggested that police dispersed workers at Awami League's peaceful rally at Muktangan by firing teargas shells three times, Joy wrote.
Amid the situation, Sheikh Hasina addressed the rally and later police members carried out indiscriminate and heavy baton charges on leaders and workers and emptied the venue of the rally.
The terrorists were coordinated under the banner 'Jatiyatabadi Bastuhara Dal' patronised by a lawmaker who was a syndicate member of the BNP government's alternative powerhouse Hawa Bhaban.
This section of marginal terrorists worked as the carrier of drug peddlers of BNP-Jamaat's godfathers.
Some 20 leaders and activists of Awami League including Begum Matia Chowdhury, Sagufta Yasmin, Maria, Lipi, Shikha, Helen, Mayor Hanif, Mokhrusur Rahman and Abdus Sattar were injured in the indiscriminate teargas shelling, he added.
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