The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday termed the BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, a killer and said that she would not sit for a dialogue with the ‘killer.’
‘With whom I would hold discussion…with the killer who kills people in arson attacks,’ she told reporters after visiting arson victims at the burn unit of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
She said that there would be no dialogue with the ‘militants like BNP-led alliance’ rather they would be put on trial for their militant acts.
Replaying to question from opposition chief whip Tajul Islam Chowdhury, the prime minister told parliament, ‘People are becoming angry with on her [Khaleda] for her misdeeds and the security measures she has strengthened by setting barbed wire around her office to protect herself from the public wrath.’
The prime minister said that Khaleda was nothing but a ‘leader of terrors’ and what she was doing along with Jamaat was also nothing but ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism’.
‘They [BNP and Jamaat] have lost the right to do politics as they want destruction of Bangladesh with their terrorist activities…If people want, their politics will be banned automatically,’ she said.
Replying to another question, Hasina said that there was no doubt that Khaleda had been passing orders for killing people and running destructive activities.
The prime minister said that legal action would be taken against Khaleda based on the investigation reports as cases were filed against her.
‘She will be tried in this country, Inshaallah,’ Hasina said adding that Khaleda was killing people out of her hunger for power.
She said that Khaleda had no interest in elections without Jamaat rather she had wanted to grab the state power by illegal means as she had rejected the repeated call for joining the elections.
As for the lawmakers’ demand for a special tribunal for the trial of arson attackers and amendment to the Speedy Trial Tribunal Act, the prime minister said that there were enough laws to try the arsonists but those laws needed to be enforced effectively.
She said that she had already instructed the law minister to see whether a separate court could be established to speed up the trial of the accused of arson attacks and killings.
‘We are closely monitoring the destructive activities of BNP and Jamaat…I want to tell the nation that we would be tough as much as needed to resist the people involved in destructive activities,’ she said.
Source: New Age
