Dhaka: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday alleged that BNP and its collaborators are engaged in a conspiracy to topple the government cashing in on the non-political movement of students.

‘Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s support to the telephonic conversation of Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has exposed BNP’s conspiracy. It’s now evident after Saturday and Sunday’s attacks that Mirza Fakhrul and his party were involved in the attacks,’ he said.

Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister, was speaking at a press conference at AL President’s Dhanmondi political office, reports the UNB.

He said it has been proved through Khosru’s ‘telephonic conversation’ that BNP is trying to give a non-political movement a political colour. ‘And today’s remarks of Mirza Fakhrul supporting it have exposed their plot.’

Referring to videos posted on Facebook spreading rumour about the rape of girls in the Awami League office, the ruling party leader said he has many reasons to believe that the BNP secretary general and his party were involved in posting these videos.

Quader said he talked to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this regard when she asked the party leaders and activists to remain alert and exercise restraint.

While talking to reporters earlier in the day after paying homage to Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Banani graveyard in the city marking his 69^th birth anniversary, he said law enforcers refrained from using force on the protesting students as per the directives of the Prime Minister.

He also claimed that an evil force infiltrated into the student protests and attacked their party men. ‘Seventeen leaders and activists are undergoing treatment at hospitals,’ he said.

A reported audio clip of telephonic conversation between BNP standing committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and an unknown boy over intensifying the ongoing student movement went viral on Facebook and YouTube on Saturday.

In the audio clip, it is heard that a boy, Naomi, phoned Khosru calling him as uncle.

The BNP leader asked the boy whether he has got involved in the student agitation.

Khosru directed the boy, who was reportedly talking from Cumilla, to join the student movement in Dhaka with his 200-500 friends to intensify it.