Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has lashed out at BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s remark that the government was ‘rotting’.
“It’s her who’s rotting. We are trying to keep BNP alive with formalin. Otherwise, how could they have talked so much?” Hasina said at a press conference on Saturday.
During the press meet, held to discuss Hasina’s visit to Japan, a reporter sought her reaction to BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s ‘rotting’ remark.
Khaleda’s remark came at a rally of pro-BNP lawyers in Dhaka on May 24. “We have to give them some time to rot fully. We have to be patient,” she said.
The BNP, which boycotted the Jan 5 polls, has been claiming that the elections were illegal, and the new government, as a consequence, was illegal, too.
“Her party decided to boycott the polls. If a politician makes wrong decisions, they have to pay for it,” Sheikh Hasina said.
“How is an election be illegal despite a 40 percent turnout?” she asked.
Hasina said the Constitution allowed for uncontested elections and blamed the BNP for the problem. “They could have joined and solved that,” she said.
Source: UNBConnect
