Missing Ilias Ali and some questions
This letter is in response to the letter published on 4th May under the same title. The writer mused on some unanswered questions although several analyses are prominent in the media. Understanding the reason behind his disappearance does not require perceptiveness like Sherlock Holmes. Barrister Rafiqul Haque termed the disappearance a well rehearsed drama of the government to conceal Suranjit's graft scandal. Intuitively, something required to be done that would avert everyone's attention from the railwaygate scandal.
Though he was a mid level leader, he was gaining popularity in Sylhet region for his persistence in opposing the land grabbing by India. After his abduction, the media got less scope to concentrate upon Suranjit's alleged scandal. Ilias' abduction followed by a series of hartals was the focus of the media. And the opposition's plea for caretaker government has also fallen into oblivion.
Undoubtedly, hartal is unacceptable. But again the question of credibility comes. How could two motorbike riders hurled cocktails aiming at the home ministry amid beefed-up security?
Again is it not aimed at diverting the fact that arsons before the hartal night might have been the work of some mysterious perpetrators and then accuse the opposition and suppress their agitation by throwing them behind the bars. Thus the disappearance enigma is getting more entangled.
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