The President of the Bangladesh Nationalist Freedom Fighters’ Party, Istiaq Aziz Ulfat, has accused Sheikh Hasina’s government of marginalizing the Bangladesh Freedom Fighters’ Council by promoting fake freedom fighters. Speaking at a press conference at the National Press Club, he alleged that under the current interim government’s Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, controversial individuals have caused discrimination against real freedom fighters. He pointed out that although there is no law banning BNP-affiliated individuals from joining the 1972-established Freedom Fighters’ Council, the present committee seems designed to exclude them deliberately.