Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the BNP-Jamaat-Shibir clique will not be allowed to carry on their mayhem as the government is determined to restore peace in the country.
“There’ll be no place for terrorism and militancy on Bangladesh soil. Inshallah, we’ll ensure peace and security to the country’s people curbing militancy and terrorism,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the President of Awami League, was addressing a mammoth public rally at Shah Abdul Hamid Stadium in the district organised by the local unit of the ruling party.
Mentioning that the BNP chairperson had tried to save the killers of Father of the Nation but she failed, Hasina said, “You (Khaleda) have also tried to save the war criminals, but failed. The verdicts of war crimes trial are coming out and the trial will continue and you cannot stop it.”
Hasina went on saying, “If your (Khaleda) heart burns for Pakistan, then you may go to Pakistan …but don’t inflict sufferings on the country’s people and play their fate.”
The AL chief alleged that the BNP chairperson is trying to stop the war crimes trial as her heart is filled with love for Pakistan. “She (Khaleda) doesn’t believe in Bangladesh and also never believed in the country’s independence. So, she kills the country’s people to save the war criminals.”
Turning to the recently held 10th parliamentary polls, the Prime Minister said Khaleda Zia had tried to forcefully stop the polls unleashing terrorist attacks on the police, presiding officers, voters, damaging polling centers, but she had failed to stop the election as people had cast their votes with a turnout of 40-45 percent ignoring her vote boycott call.
Referring to different incidents of violence unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat in Gaibandha over the last few months, Hasina said people here do not want to see terrorism, conflict and militancy anymore as they want peace and to lead a better life. “We won’t tolerate any terrorist act further and you all keep this in mind.”
Continuing her scathing attacks on her arch rival, Hasina said Khaleda Zia does not like anything except terrorism.
The premier sharply criticised the BNP chairperson for having so many birthdays, especially for celebrating it on August 15 when the whole nation observes the day as the National Mourning Day for the killing of Bangabandhu with most of his family members in 1975. “Can you imagine what a perversion it is?”
Citing the killing of farmers in Gaibandha during BNP’s rule in 1991 for demanding fertiliser, the AL president said that farmers need not to lay down their lives during Awami League regime as fertiliser follow the farmers.
The premier vowed to make compulsory the computer education at primary level, build at least a tin-roofed house for each family, introduce ferry service on Balashi-Bahadurabad route and a railway bridge if possible after conducting a feasibility study, reach power supply to each house, set up mills and factories through establishing a Special Economic Zone in this region, and construct free houses for the landless and homeless people in Gaibandha.
Hasina also expressed her firm resolve to build a hunger- and poverty-free middle-income country by 2021 and a developed country by 2041.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, AL leader Dr Abdur Razzaque, Faruk Khan, MP, adv Fazle Rabbi Mia, MP, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, State Minister for Textiles and Jute Mirza Azam, Mahbub Ara Gini, MP spoke, among others, at the rally chaired by acting district AL president and district council administrator adv Syed Shamsul Alam Hiru.
Earlier, from the rally venue, the Prime Minister inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of a number of development projects.
Source: UNBConnect