Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has said that Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inqilab Moncho and a potential independent candidate for Dhaka-8, was targeted with the intent to kill to silence his voice.
“It is now clear that BAL terrorists targeted Osman Hadi to kill him—to silence his voice. The objective is unmistakable: to spread fear among the millions of young Bangladeshis who overthrew the dictator Sheikh Hasina,” he wrote on Facebook at 10:03 am on Sunday.
“The attack took place in the second week of December. Exactly 54 years ago during this same week, Pakistani occupying forces and their local collaborators murdered many of our finest intellectuals. Their aim was clear then as well: to silence the voice of a rising nation and instill terror among its people,” he added.
He noted, “Hadi may not be an academic intellectual like many of our martyred scholars, but he is something just as powerful—he is the voice of millions. He represents a new Bangladesh, no longer ruled by a foreign-imposed puppet queen. He embodies a historic struggle that has set a new benchmark for freedom. He is the face of a Revolutionary New Bangladesh.”
Shafiqul also wrote, “There was a time when many BAL activists stood on the right side of history. Under the leadership of Tajuddin Ahmad, numerous party officials led our glorious War of Independence against Pakistan. But in 2024—and throughout the 16 years preceding the July Revolution—the BAL stood firmly on the wrong side of history.”
“Its officials and activists became the new Razakars and Al-Badrs. They took up arms to silence an entire generation. They were defeated by a determined Gen Z. Yet the events of recent weeks show that they remain the same brutal, terrorist-fascist outfit that Sheikh Hasina transformed them into after seizing power in 2009,” he added.
He further stated, “Bangladesh lost some of its finest souls in December 1971, but the nation was not silenced. It was not silenced in January 1975 when Sheikh Mujib imposed one-party rule. It was not silenced in July and August, when some of our brightest young people were slaughtered on Hasina’s orders. And it will not be silenced in December 2025—no matter what Hasina and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, the Butchers of Bengal, may have planned. They may have silenced Hadi for now. But there are tens of millions of Hadis across the country.”
“They will build a new Bangladesh—one where there is no place for the fascists and terrorists that the BAL has become,” he concluded.