Sayeed Muhammad: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the ICT adviser to the prime minister, in his Facebook account yesterday blamed BNP and Jamaat for spreading false stories online to incite the students who are demanding road safety.
His status reads: “Our Awami League Government has agreed to all the demands of the student road safety protesters and already started implementing them. The police were instructed to act with extreme restraint. Yet, we see that a group is spreading false stories and old pictures online in an attempt to incite the students further.
Today, the quota protesters called a strike, not for quotas, but for false allegations of attacks on students. Our Government has agreed to all their demands as well and a committee is already working on quota reform. So this strike is completely illogical and clearly an attempt to keep unrest going just as the road safety protests are dying down.
Also today the BNP stated that this is the beginning of a movement against the government.
All of this together shows a clear connection to the BNP-Jamaat attempt to cause violence and disruptions as they have not gotten any public support for their own demands. The BNP-Jamaat are obviously behind spreading false stories online to incite students. Are the quota protesters taking money from BNP-Jamaat in return for organizing protests? It seems far too coincidental to me.
The only ones suffering are the common citizens.
Later on, in another Facebook status he criticised BNP leader and former minister Amir Khshru Mahmud Chowdhury for inciting the student protest.
“Here is direct evidence of BNP’s involvement in these protests. A phone conversation of BNP Standing Committer member Amir Khasru Mahmud Choudhury instructing activists to bring students to protests. He also instructs them to make more fake posts on Facebook and other social media,” the status says.
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