File photo of prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina Hasina on Thursday warned of tougher actions against any attempt to create disorder in the name of politics under orchestrated plots like that of the 2015 one, staged by BNP.
‘It was the wrong decision on the part of Khaleda Zia to boycott the general election in 2014. A political party must pay itself for any wrong decision of its own,’ she said while addressing a discussion organised by Bangladesh Awami League marking the jail killing day
at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh in Dhaka.
Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Awami League, said people of the country resisted them in 2015 when they tried to take revenge of their wrong decision on people and ‘in future people will resist any such attempt (as well)’.
The premier said BNP and anti-liberation forces thought of sending Awami League to oblivion through killing the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the four national leaders and thousands of party leaders and workers in 1975 and afterwards.
‘But, they failed to do it as the root of Awami League is in deep of the people of the country,’ she said.
‘In the past many quarters tried to destroy Awami League, but failed. They will not be successful in doing so in future as well,’ she said.
On this day in 1975, four national leaders — Bangladesh’s first prime minister Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, AHM Kamruzzaman and Captain Monsur Ali, who led the War of Liberation in 1971, were brutally killed in captivity inside the Dhaka Central Jail.
The meeting, chaired by Sheikh Hasina herself, observed one minute silence in memory of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his wife Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, martyrs of August 15 and the four national leaders.
Newly elected general secretary of Awami League Obaidul Kader gave introductory speech while deputy leader of parliament and presidium member of the party Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, member of the advisory council and commerce minister Tofail Ahmed, advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta, presidium members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Mohammad Nasim and Dr Abdur Razzak and joint secretary Abdur Rahman, among others, took part in the discussion.
Daughter of Tajuddin Ahmed and member of Awami League Central Working Committee Simin Hossain Rimi, general secretaries of Dhaka City south and north units of the party Shah-e-Alam Murad and Sadek Khan also spoke on the occasion. Publicity secretary of the party Dr Hasan Mahmud and deputy publicity secretary Aminul Islam conducted the programme.
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Source: New Age