BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia prefers jail as the safest place to protect herself from the public wrath, Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina has said.
She said this in reply to a supplementary question raised by Jatiya Party lawmaker Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu in the House during her question-answer session on Wednesday, reports BSS.
"As Khaleda Zia has become isolated from the people due to committing genocide, militant acts and intimidating the people, she herself wants to get arrested, be sent to jail, and thinks that jail is the safest place for her to save herself from the public warath," the PM said.
Sheikh Hasina also said Khaleda Zia has a habit of staging drama, and HM Ershad knows this very well in how he has brought out the BNP chief of a room of the Purbani Hotel during the rule of General Ershad.
"She is now staging the same drama to earn the sympathy of the people and get better publicity in the international media by being in the headlines,"
The Leader of the House said Begum Zia has confined herself into her office.
"All, except her leaders and workers are going there; even the foreigners are visiting her. If her leaders and workers do not go there to respond to her call, then what is our fault?" she said.
"As the BNP leader has become isolated from the people, she has chosen the Nazimuddin Road," she said.
The prime minister said Khaleda Zia is indiscriminately killing the people and the trial of the killers would be held as per the existing laws of the country.
Sheikh Hasina said Khaleda Zia is continuing to show a finger at the court and is violating its dignity by not appearing before it.
So, if anybody ignores or undermines the courts, his or her trial would be held as per the directives of the court, she said.
Sheikh Hasina alleged the BNP-Jamaat nexus is burning the people to death and is out to destroy the economy.