Mahfuz Alam’s Duplicity: The Reset Button to Restore Acceptability

Raju Narul

After August 5, Mahfuz Alam changed his Facebook cover photo, which featured pictures of Abul Hashim (Badruddin Omar’s father), Bhasani, Jogen Mandal, Sher-e-Bangla, and Suhrawardy. It’s still there. Notice that each of them contributed nothing to the liberation war! In all the interviews Mahfuz gave at that time, he said that the history of Bangladesh was centered on 47. 1971 was absent there! Bangabandhu is the villain there!

Dr. Yunus talked about the reset button during his first foreign trip to America, and Mahfuz was with him on that trip. That was the first time we came to know about Mahfuz, whom Dr. Yunus introduced as the mastermind of the July Movement. The reset button means, skipping 71 and jumping from 47 to 24! That Mahfuz tells us today – the League is back because an attempt was made to erase 71. What a Seleucus!

At least 47 media outlets in Bangladesh were seized while Mahfuz was a minister. We have the list! Such an incident has never happened in this country. Hundreds of employees have lost their jobs, most of the people in the newsrooms of the media have lost their jobs, today that Mahfuz talks about media freedom!

When shrines were attacked all over the country, memorials of the Liberation War, freedom fighters were attacked, and women were humiliated, Mahfuz was still the minister. During their time, the offices of the country’s two leading newspapers were burned down. Mahfuz never said a word about them. We left them to catch them by the hand, we said, everything is being destroyed, it is a great danger to humanity – but the Mahfuzs have been inciting the mob day after day. Today Mahfuz says, the League has returned because of mob rule. Yet Pinaki Ilyas was the father of the Mahfuzs!

While he was a minister, Mahfuz had put his less educated brother on the board of the Red Crescent. Another NCP leader was the director there. After the two had a falling out, the news came to the media. So another brother failed in the election. After leaving the ministry, Mahfuz could not return to the NCP because his former organization Jamaat did not want him, because at different times Mahfuz had said two or four things against the Jamaat in form and gesture. If he could have returned to the NCP, would Mahfuz have written this status today?

So today, the story that Mahfuz is telling about the return of the Awami League is all self-contradictory. Wasn’t Mahfuz himself a part of the government that, at the hands of the interim government, had all hopes of reform gone astray?

Don’t trust the Mahfuz. They are sitting at your feet in danger, don’t delay even a moment to grab your neck. The Mahfuz know that they are in terrible danger!!

What, are you angry?