DHAKA: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleged country’s civil society had proposed military takeover in 2006.

Joy came up with the allegation in a status update on social network site, Facebook on Thursday.    

Sajeeb Wazed Joy said, “I was at a dinner party at the home of Barrister Rokonuddin Mahmud sometime late in 2006. It was attended by most of the civil society members who are today demanding that the upcoming elections be stopped.

The BNP had rewritten the voters list with 1 crore 40 lakh false voters and had rigged local elections including Dhaka-10. We were discussing what would happen if the Awami League boycotted the elections. One of the “eminent” persons who were in the roundtable the other day suggested then that the Army could take over.”

“I was astonished and argued that this was completely unconstitutional. Most of them murmured in response, but did not quite agree with me. I did not know at that time, but after 1/11 we came to realize that is what they had planned all along. They had let their plan slip that night in front of me,” he added.

He further alleged, “Today these same people are attempting the same thing all over again. We have to put an end to this. We should never deviate from our constitution again. Our Opposition has raised this scope by boycotting a free and fair election. Their entire goal was to make this election controversial to create the opportunity for yet another “third force”. Do not let them succeed.”

BDST: 2010 HRS, JAN 02, 2014
Edited by: Golam Rosul, Newsroom Editor/ Abul Kalam Azad, Senior Newsroom Editor