Khaleda Zia has criticised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comments on the BNP chairperson’s re-election to her long-held party post.
“Hasina neither behaves decently nor does she use decent language. She uses such foul language that they put you to shame,” the former prime minister said at an International Women’s Day function at her Gulshan office on Tuesday.
She said the Awami League and Hasina lack civility and were incapable of speaking in sober language.
Addressing a party rally on Monday, the prime minister had described Khaleda and her son Tarique Rahman’s re-election to their party posts on Mar 6 as a ‘drama’.
“Both are accused persons – one is charged with theft and other a fugitive implicated in the Aug 21 (2004 grenade attack) case whose name is on Interpol’s ‘wanted’ list.”
The BNP leaders criticised Hasina’s remarks at various functions on Tuesday, saying its ‘lacked political decorum’.
Members of the women wing of the party called on her Tuesday night to greet the BNP chairperson on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
Khaleda accused Hasina of forcibly holding on to her position.
Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal leaders also complained to Khaleda that they were obstructed from carrying on with their plans for the Day.
The BNP chief said, “Even on Women’s Day we are not allowed to carry on with our programmes. A perpetual mood of hindrance prevails in the country. The country cannot run in this undemocratic condition.”
Referring to the sexual harassment of women at the Dhaka University’s TSC last year, the former prime minister said, “When the issue appeared in the media we were ashamed. Foreigners make distasteful comments on it. It is not in the least a good thing.”
She alleged that the Awami League is ethically incapable to govern.
Khaleda accused the ruling party of injecting corruption and malpractices into the minds of the people and of destroying the capacity of the people to think in the right direction.
Referring to cases of alleged police atrocities, Khaleda said her party would request police to behave properly with women keeping their own wives and sisters in mind.
She also remembered women-friendly steps taken during the presidential tenure of her late husband military dictator Ziaur Rahman. “He was the first to induct women into police and Ansar.”
Addressing the women journalists present at the event, she hoped that more women will take to the profession.
Source: bdnews24