Bangladesh Nationalist Party's rally for youth came under fire after a group of ‘unruly activists’ who converged at the rally vandalised several murals that symbolise Father of the Nation and Liberation War in the port city of Chattogram.
According to CCTV footage, armed with sticks and batons, BNP activists can be seen attacking murals in Chattogram.
With the emergence of CCTV footage, netizens mostly youth came down heavily on BNP raising questions about the party's stance on liberation war ideals that formed the bedrock of this youngest nation in South Asia.
"Looking at the video footage, I demand exemplary punishment to find the culprits and bring them under the law," wrote Khandakar Hossain.
"Petrol bombing on innocent citizens, destroying legacies of the liberation war, orchestrating an attack on minorities, are the means of BNP intends to attack the youths," questioned another netizen.
Since its birth as midwifed by the first military dictator, BNP has been opposed to liberation war ideals and has repeatedly legitimised and deified the legacy of war criminals like Gen Ziaur Rahman and promoted them on the political spectrum.
The party has introduced a culture of religion-based political doctrine, observed eminent researcher Syed Badrul Ahsan in an earlier piece.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Awami League on a Facebook post came down heavily with footage of vandalism, and pulled up BNP calling the act another manifestation of glorifying the Pakistani ideals that raped and murdered millions in 1971.
"Now five decades down the line if the party seeks to allure young voters by glorifying war criminals then it's an irony and a strategy surely would lead to defeat," added Rahul, a Dhaka University Student.
Chittagong University unit of Chhatra League has strongly condemned and protested against the vandalism of documents of Liberation War and a portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Jamal Khan Square from a BNP rally in Chittagong.
BNP-Jamaat's political policy is to harm people's lives and property and harm the common people by creating fire terror and anarchy in the country, protesters said from a rally of Chattogram North District Awami Jubo League.
