PM: Ensure safety of minority communities

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to put in their best efforts to maintain communal harmony and ensure safety and security of the people of minority communities. She made the urge during a video conference with peoples representatives, professional leaders and officials of Rajshahi division from her Gonobhaban official residence on Saturday, reports BSS. "As a Muslim majority country it is the responsibility of all of us to take care of the minorities," she told the conference which focused on nationwide development activities and anti-terror campaigns. "You have to remain careful so that no such incident, which are taking place sporadically in different parts of the country, take place anywhere in the country," said Hasina. She has urged the countrymen to resist all evil designs against development saying peace is the foremost prerequisite for the country to continue the ongoing development. "So the countrymen have to remain careful about their conspiracy . . . everybody has to join hands against their anarchy, arson attacks and vandalism," she said. Sheikh Hasina cautioned everyone against a possible fresh spate of violence in the country as "BNP leaders have already given the hints and threatened to go for tough movement from November". The prime minister accused BNP-Jamaat clique of driving the country to the "path of destruction" and said "they are also responsible for destroying the morality of the youths". "They (BNP-Jamaat) will not change their nature," she said. The prime minister exchanged views with deputy commissioners, other senior officials and local representatives in five district of the division while the conference was projected at 2981 villages, upazilas of eight districts of the division.