Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the banks and financial institutions to identify the financiers of militant and destructive activities and strictly monitor the bank transactions to check terror financing.
She said the patrons of terrorists and militants are still using the banks to transfer money at home and abroad.
She made the statement in a meeting with the officials of the Ministry of Finance at the Secretariat.
Sheikh Hasina urged the countrymen to resist the destructive activities of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami. She said: “People are aware about their activities which targets innocent people and the country’s economy and only public wrath can prevent BNP-Jamaat from riding on anarchy.
“In the name of politics they are carrying out destructive activities including killing, petrol bomb attacks and causing harm to economy which have crossed all limits.”
She said: “They do politics in the name of Islam, but they are pushing the country to a complete destruction through conducting such activities which Islam never supports.”
Sheikh Hasina said: “We have a commitment to the nation as we have liberated the country. It is our responsibility to make the country self-reliant economically and as a dignified nation. We operate the country keeping this in mind.”
The PM said BNP have no sympathy for the people as the party has no sacrifice for creating the country. “They have got it at the cost of others. BNP has emerged as a political party illegally in the aftermath of the killing of Bangabandhu,” she stated.
The prime minister also assured that the government was trying its best to bring the current unruly activities of BNP-Jamaat under control.
After the meeting, the prime minister received Tk6 crore donations from nine state-run banks and financial institutions to the Prime Minister’s Fund for the treatment and financial support of the victims of BNP-Jammat terror activities.
The banks and institutions that donated were Sonali Bank, Janata Bank, Agrani Bank, Rupali Bank, Bangladesh Development Bank, Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, Sadharan Bima, Jiban Bima and Bangladesh Security and Exchange Commission.
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith handed over the donation cheques to the prime minister on behalf of the banks and financial institutions, PM’s Press Secretary Shameem Chowdhury said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the scale of recent violence of BNP and Jamaat is tantamount to crime against humanity. BNP and Jamaat are creating social and political troubles to hinder the country’s ongoing success.
She said Bangladesh’s economy is now better than ever before and in all index the country is progressing at a faster pace. The government has been implementing many fast-track projects to expedite the economic development.
Laying importance on peaceful political situation, the prime minister said Bangladesh would have been a developed country much before than other countries in this region if the country could on the track that Bangabandhu had initiated after independence.
Sheikh Hasina sought support of the officials of the Finance Ministry in implementing the fast-track projects saying they have to play a responsible role in mobilising funds to implement those projects within the stipulated time.
