Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Information and Communication Technology Affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Saturday urged everyone to join him in demanding BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia go back to Pakistan for raising question about the figures of Liberation War martyrs.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, also the son of Sheikh Hasina, stated on his verified Facebook page, ‘I urge everyone to go protest in front of Khaleda’s house. Show her and the BNP that the memories of our brothers and sisters slaughtered by her Paki masters and Jamaat henchmen cannot be wiped out by their propaganda. Join me in demanding Khaleda go back to Pakistan.’

Joy posted, ‘I am outraged that during this Victory month Khaled Zia and the BNP are campaigning against our War of Liberation. Khaleda has taken the Pakistani line minimizing the slaughter of our innocent civilians by the brutal Pak Army and their murderous collaborators Jamaat-e-Islami. She has claimed only a few hundred thousand killed. Today the BNP even called for an opinion poll on the number of deaths! Facts are facts. They cannot be determined by an opinion poll.’

Joy stated about the figures of Liberation War martyrs and genocide, ‘3 million men, women and children were slaughtered in cold blood. Hindus were tortured and shot on sight. Entire villages were wiped out. Even when they had agreed to surrender they rounded up our best intellectuals and slaughtered them all. These weren’t casualties of war. This was genocide.’

Mentioning former prime minister Khaleda Zia a Pakistani agent, he said, ‘Khaleda Zia is trying yet again to protect these murderers. She made them ministers of the very people they slaughtered. I have absolutely no respect left for this woman after this. I detest the fact that she was ever PM of our nation. She is a Pakistani agent. She has repeatedly met with ISI agents and taken money from ISI for elections. She should leave Bangladesh and go live in the Pakistan that she loves.’

Earlier, Khaleda Zia raised question over the figure of Liberation War martyrs while addressing a rally at the Institute of Engineers in the city, organised by Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal marking the Victory Day on 21 December.

A defamation case was filed against the BNP chief with Narail cognisance court on 25 December.

On 24 December, a Supreme Court lawyer sent a legal notice to the former premier asking her to seek unconditional apology from the nation for raising question about the figures of Liberation War martyrs.