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Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday urged journalists to raise their voices against miscreants and arsonists.
He made the call while inaugurating the online news portal "nantvbd.com" at the National Press Club at Topkhana Road in the capital on Wednesday.
"Police were killed on October 28 during the BNP's rally in a brutal way, journalists were brutally beaten like snakes-which were very heinous and extremely inhumane. Everyone in the media should raise their voice against it so that they cannot do this again. I would request all media to raise their voice against them," said Hasan.
"Today a war has been declared against the state. These sneak attacks, hurling crude bombs, killing bus drivers, burning people alive in the name of hartal and blockade cannot be the work or programme of any political party. These are nothing more than terrorist acts," he said.
"The people will be called upon to carry out political programmes, but they will call and sit in the air-conditioned rooms and ask some workers to throw crude bombs giving money to some drug addicts, this cannot be a programme of any political party." he said.
Presided over by nantvbd.com Online Editor and Publisher Sabina Mubasshir, the programme was also addressed by AKM Shamim Osman, MP, General Secretary of Jatiya Press Club Shyamal Dutta, Tanti League President Engineer Shawkat Ali, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the portal Anwar Hossain Dipu and Director Khadem Md Sanaullah.
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