Contest polls, discard politics of destruction, PM urges Khaleda

Desk Report: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to return to healthy politics and contest the next elections by discarding the politics of killing, plundering and corruption.

"We want that the trend of democracy to continue ... we want that they (BNP) don't commit the mistake of skipping election again. Rather we want they would contest the elections and the people would judge that who would come to power," she said.

The premier was addressing a civic reception accorded to her by expatriates Bangladeshis at City Conference Centre in Stockholm of Sweden on Thursday evening.

The prime minister said Khaleda Zia doesn't feel well if Bangladesh witnesses any development and she always sees destruction of the country not uplift.

Referring to Begum Zia's comments that Bangladesh is going through a bad situation, she said it's not Bangladesh, rather those who stole the orphans' money and those who are afraid of facing cases and who lost cases in the higher court despite filing writs for 150 times are going through bad time.

Sheikh Hasina said the BNP leader doesn't feel comfort when the people of the country stay well. "They feel good when they kill people and plunder and destroy the country's property," she said.

The prime minister said when BNP was in power, it looted public money by opening Hawa Bhaban and committing unbridled corruption. "Khaleda Zia's sons know only looting and taking commission and they only learned how to amass wealth," she said.

Accusing Ziaur Rahman again of his involvement in the tragic August 15 incident in 1975, the Awami League chief said BNP leaders were also involved in the August 21 grenade attacks and 10-truck arms haul. "They made several attempts on my life. But I tried to forget that incidents in the interest of the politics, country and the people," she said.

The prime minister also mentioned the rampage and killing unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat in 2013, 2014 and 2015. "The BNP doesn't understand anything except killing and it doesn't know any work except destruction ... the people didn't forget how the BNP inflicted torture on the countrymen," she said.


Source: BSS

 

risingbd/Dhaka/June 16, 2017/A K Azad