PM at Pirganj rally
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, his wife Kristine Wazed and mother Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, behind them, are showered with flower petals as they reach the home of late scientist Wazed Miah, father of Joy, at Pirganj in Rangpur yesterday.
Warning people that militancy and terrorism would come back if the BNP-Jamaat alliance returns to power, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought public support and blessings for the next polls.
“If the BNP-Jamaat alliance returns to power, they will resort to criminal and militant activities, looting, corruption and siphoning public money off abroad and will stop all development activities undertaken by the present government,” she told a mammoth rally at the Pirganj Govt High School premises here.
She urged all to vote for boat in the next election to continue the development activities.
As Hasina, also the president of Awami League, enquired her audience whether they would vote for the AL-led grand alliance in the next election, people responded positively by raising their hands.
Though it was a fasting day yesterday, thousands of people joined the rally. A festive mood prevailed at the meeting as the prime minister’s only son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and his wife Kristine Overmeyer attended it.
Highlighting different development activities carried out by her government, the premier said the AL has fulfilled most of its electoral pledges and the rest would be fulfilled if the party is returned to power.
She noted that the Jamaat-Shibir has been spreading anti-government propaganda from different mosques in the country by saying that Imams and Muazzins are being killed and nobody is there to lead prayers.
She asked her party men and religious people to be aware of the propaganda and alert people about it. No Muslim can speak lies from mosques except the Jamaat-Shibir men, she added.
She complained that the anti-liberation forces use religion in their vested interests.
At the rally, she inaugurated several development projects and laid the foundation stones of some others.
AL leaders Abdul Latif Siddique, Shahajahan Khan, Khalid Mahmud
Chowdhury, Afzal Hossain, Sujit Roy Nandi, Shaifuzzaman Shekhor, and
Mahmud Hasan Ripon spoke, among others.
Source: The Daily Star
