Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged people to resist the BNP-Jamaat activists who would try to prevent people from exercising franchise.
She also called for building strong resistance against the elements engaged in homicide, burning people alive and destroying public property in the name of movement.
Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, said this at a workers’ meeting of the party at Shilpakala Academy in Gopalganj.
She arrived here yesterday on a two-day election campaign programme in Gopalganj and Munsiganj districts.
The prime minister said BNP is disappointed at the fate of Jamaat-e- Islami, a terrorist party declared disqualified by the court to contest in the election. Sharing the woes of Jamaat, BNP has decided to boycott the election and hatching conspiracy to foil it.
“But the election will certainly be held on January 5,” she said urging the people not to be misguided by the propaganda of BNP-Jamaat, which are expert in spreading falsehood.
Sheikh Hasina said some BNP leaders are instigating their workers to carry out attack on members of the law-enforcement agencies.
“Members of the police force are carrying out their duties and working day and night to maintain law and order. So why they are being made target of such brutality if the movement is for democracy,” she asked.
The prime minister said BNP doesn’t know how to create anything, they only know how to destroy. Even cattle are not safe from their hand, she said, adding BNP-Jamaat is also showing enmity with trees planted for environment protection.
She said Khaleda has made people hostage forcing them to be confined in the house though siege programme. She has made target the people coming out of their house for livelihood, but she is passing days lavishly in the house, she added.
The prime minister said BNP-Jamaat is unleashing atrocities in the same style the anti-liberation forces carried out in Bangladesh in 1971. Their ultimate objective is to foil the war criminals’ trial, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said death penalty of Quader Mollah was suited to the aspiration of the people of the country. But, Khaleda is completely silent on the burning issue.
In this regard, the prime minister also criticised Khaleda for her remarks about the resolution of the Pakistan National Assembly on Quader Mollah’s execution during her press conference on December 24.
“Begum Zia said that she is shocked. But, it’s not clear why she is shocked… is it for Quader Mollah’s execution? Or for the resolution adopted in the Pakistan parliament condemning the execution?” the prime minister asked.
Chairman of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Sheikh KabirHossain, Sheikh Helal, MP, and Religious Affairs Secretary of Awami League Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, spoke among others, on the occasion.
Source: The Daily Star
