Prime minister Sheikh Hasina hands over cheque of Tk 8.37 crores among the 185 transport owners effected in the fire bomb attacks during the 92-day long BNP-Jamaat blockade. Photo: Focus Bangla
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday reiterated her government’s steadfast stand to take legal action against the persons responsible for colossal damage to the people and killing innocent people alive in the name of politics.
The state-run BSS news agency reported that the prime minister while distributing cheques among affected people and their relatives at her office said “The persons responsible for causing the damage to the people will be brought to justice. None of them will be escaped.”
“We have already started taking legal action against them and it would continue as if they remain unpunished they would do same thing in future,” Hasina, also the president of ruling Awami League, added.
Today the prime minister distributed 222 cheques of over Tk 8.37 crore among the relatives of 37 burn injured people and owners of 185 damaged transports during the 92-days blockade programme enforced by the BNP-Jamaat alliance.
After distribution of the cheques the prime minister said, “We are trying to extend you help though we know that the damage you have suffered is not recoverable. But we are trying to stand beside you with all cooperation.”
“We don’t want such damage to the people in future. It’s unthinkable one can cause such damage to the people and burning people alive aimed at gratifying own interests,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said people of Bangladesh never had experienced such brutality in the past which BNP and Jamaat clique has unleashed during their 92-days agitation since January 5, 2015.
The prime minster said her politics is devoted to serve the people and for their welfare. “It’s not politics at all if political activities cause damage to the people. It’s merely militant and terrorist act,” she said.
She said people of the country don’t want to see the reoccurrence of such incidents, loss of lives of toiling masses. “Death of a member of a family is a huge damage to a family,” she said.
Reiterated her commitment to remain beside the people of the country, Sheikh Hasina sought support of the people irrespective of party affiliation to tackle such incidents in future.
Source: Prothom Alo
