The ruling Awami League yesterday claimed that a vested quarter had been conspiring to unseat Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power.
“There is no chance to remove Sheikh Hasina from power through elections. The vested quarter has been making attempt to unseat her from power in an illegal way,” AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said while addressing a programme at Engineers Institution in the capital.
The ruling party organised the programme to mark the historic Six-point Day. It observed the day through daylong programmes, including placing wreath to the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Syed Ashraf, also the LGRD minister, urged the party men to get united saying that if they unite, no one would be able to make their blueprint successful. “If we remain alert, incidents like August 15 will not recur,” he said.
About the proposed budget, the AL spokesperson said the budget was an economic view of the government. “People who don’t believe in the ideologies of the government, they will not support it. The government does not see any problem with such opposition.”
Pointing finger at critics, the minister said, “If you don’t accept the proposed budget, you can place proposals to the finance minister for its changes.”
Regarding the issue of black money whitening in the budget, he said there was much ado about nothing.
“The country’s economy has not been destroyed, although there has been a provision of whitening black money over the last 30 years,” he said.
Hinting at Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of the CPD, the LGRD minister raised question over the activities of some non-governmental organisations.
“Many people have set up organisations with foreign donations and they work in their favour. The so-called patriotic individuals are misleading the people,” he said, adding that they neither know about the history nor the law, neither economics nor politics.
Issuing a note of warning against the BNP for terming the incumbent government illegal, AL Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif advised them not to invite danger.
“You are talking about movement. Carry on with your movement and let us see it. You are in daydream that foreign friends would help you take office,” he said.
AL leaders Sahara Khatun, Ahmad Hossain, Habibur Rahman Siraj, Badiuzzaman Bhuiyan Dablu, MA Aziz and Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, among others, addressed the programme with Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury in the chair.