Nusrat accuses Home Minister of downplaying attack on her residence

National Citizen Party (NCP) MP Nusrat Tabassum has questioned the Home Minister's remarks about the attack on her residence, accusing him of downplaying the incident by describing the house as abandoned and attributing the damage to a short circuit.

In a Facebook post on Thursday afternoon, Nusrat said six to seven people, including children, along with several cattle, were living in the house when the attack took place.

She criticised the Home Minister for declaring the house abandoned in Parliament and dismissing the damage as the result of a short circuit, despite what she described as the smell of burnt petrol at the scene.

"Six or seven people, including children, along with several cattle, were living in a residential house. Yet the Home Minister stood in Parliament and declared it abandoned," she wrote.

Nusrat also questioned why the Home Minister appeared to downplay the incident, saying she believed the attack had been carried out by Awami League activists.

Addressing BNP supporters, she asked why the minister had sought to minimise the attack if, as she alleged, Awami League activists were responsible.

She further challenged the logic of describing her residence as abandoned, asking whether Dhaka University's Faculty of Business Studies, buses at Farmgate and Kamalapur Railway Station could also be considered abandoned under the same reasoning.

Context

Nusrat, a joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP), a member of parliament and one of the six coordinators forcibly detained by the Detective Branch (DB) in July, has alleged on earliest hours of Thursday that a petrol bomb was thrown at her family home in Kushtia setting it on fire.