Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she can't understand that how a political party can do politics by burning people to death.
She was pondering this after exchanging Bangla Nabobarsho greetings with central leaders of Bangladesh Awami League as well as leaders of associate bodies of the party at her official Ganobhaban residence on Tuesday morning.
"The BNP has initiated the culture of burning people to death ... it is very regretful. It is my question that how can a person, who has a minimum sense of humanity, commit such a cruel act?" she pondered.
Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, said the country went through many "disasters" in the last three months, and the people of the country suffered "julum" and repression for 92 days from January 5 this year.
"Various incidents including burning people to death took place during the period that was not acceptable to anyone," she said.
The prime minister said the BNP-Jamaat nexus torched trucks, buses, and rails and caused damage to the life and property of the common people.
"They not only torched the public vehicles, they also burnt the lower and middle-income and general people to death," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said her party does politics for the welfare of the people and to protect their interests.
"But we witnessed with sorrow such incidents as burning people to death while alive in the name of a movement, which had never happened in the past," she said.