‘UN is taking steps to bring Awami League back’, did Fazlur Rahman really say this?

A photocard titled ‘UN is taking steps to bring Awami League back to public politics by next May’ has recently been circulated on various platforms. The photocard has been circulated with the photo of Kishoreganj-4 MP Advocate Md. Fazlur Rahman’s statement.

As of the publication of this report, the most viral video circulated on TikTok has been viewed nearly 25 thousand times, with reactions from nearly 2 thousand different accounts and the video shared nearly a hundred times.

Fact Check

The investigation by the Rumor Scanner team revealed that Md. Fazlur Rahman did not make any such comment on the UN’s steps to bring the banned political party Bangladesh Awami League back to politics. In fact, the claim was circulated without any kind of evidence. No source of information was found to support the claim after observing the posts circulated on the claim.

Regarding the return of Awami League to politics, MP Md. If Fazlur Rahman had made any comment or if the UN had taken any action on this issue, it would have been discussed and criticized and the media would have also been seriously reported. But no news or information supporting the claim could be found in the media or any reliable source.

Therefore, Md. Fazlur Rahman made a comment titled ‘The UN is taking steps to bring the Awami League back into open politics by next May’ and the information disseminated in the claim is false.