Prime Minister’s Political Assistant Rashed Khan, who holds the rank of secretary, has alleged that members of the Awami League and its student wing, Bangladesh Chhatra League, joined the workers’ movement in Mirpur posing as garment workers.

He made the remarks in a post on his verified Facebook account on Sunday (November 1).

In the post, he wrote that Awami League and Chhatra League activists had joined the movement posing as garment workers. He also claimed that Sajbul Islam, organising secretary of the Jagannath University unit of Chhatra League, was leading the alleged workers’ movement in Mirpur.

Rashed Khan further alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizen Party (NCP) had been provoking the movement from the beginning.

He claimed that Awami League and Chhatra League activists posing as garment workers had set fire to a police vehicle and vandalised a police box beneath the Mirpur-10 Metro Station.

Sharing a screenshot of an NCP leader Sarjis Alam’s Facebook post, Rashed Khan wrote that it was a small example of how the current opposition and the ousted forces had come together.

He alleged that Jamaat-NCP leaders and activists were encouraging the ousted Awami League forces to destabilise the state.