Prime Minister’s ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy accused civil society of plotting to overthrow the ruling Awami League government. He added: ‘they [plotters] should all be arrested and tried.’

In a Facebook post on Thursday Sajeeb Wazed said Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Gana Forum president Kamal Hossain and the Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam ‘are people who want power but have never been elected in even a single constituency without the backing of one of the major political parties.’

‘Manna, Kamal Hossain and the Daily Star’s editor Mahfuz Anam are the same people who openly urged the military to stay in power indefinitely after 1/11,’ wrote the adviser to the prime minister.

He further wrote, ‘Taking advantage of the BNP-Jamaat’s arson attacks over the past two months on innocent civilians these same people have been falsely trying to claim both parties were involved in violence.’

Joy in his post accused the Daily Star of printing ‘a half page copy of a poster by banned terrorist outfit Hizbut Tahrir urging army soldiers to overthrow the Government and seize power.’

‘They disgust me,’ wrote Sajeeb Wazed.

‘The Daily Star has written one false story after another about fake Chhattra League bombers, all of which have been refuted. Yet not one of them has demanded that BNP-Jamaat stop their violence.’

‘Now we know why’, Sajeeb Wazed added.

He accused the ‘so called ‘civil society’’ that ‘They want the violence to continue and indeed want to help the BNP-Jamaat kill more people. They want to blame our Awami League Government no matter what so that they can ride the Army’s coattails back to power just like 1/11. This is treason.’