Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said it is not so easy to oust her party from power through pushing, referring to BNP-Jamaat's scheduled nationwide sit-in demonstration on Wednesday as part of an attempt to topple the government.
“They are now saying they will wage a movement from January 11. The most left- and right-leaning parties have also joined them. All of them in unison from one place will oust us (from the power). I want to say one thing – the Awami League is a party working for the people's welfare. It is not so easy to remove the Awami League from power,” she said.
The prime minister was presiding over a discussion meeting organized by the Awami League at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka to mark the historic Homecoming Day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
She said the BNP created panic among the people by saying that they would dislodge the Awami League government on December 10.
“Their hugely publicized December 10 rally finally went to Golapbagh,” she said.
The prime minister, however, said her party has proved that it can topple any party from power if it goes to power through vote rigging and illegal methods.
“We have proved time and again that the Awami League can do it (topple illegal governments),” she added.
General Secretary of the Awami League and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader gave the address of welcome.
Awami League central executive committee members Prof Mohammad Ali Arafat and Advocate Tarana Halim, Advisory Council Member Prof Farzana Islam, and noted actor Ramendu Majumdar, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Awami League Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap moderated the discussion.
On this day in 1972, Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the nation and supreme commander of the country's Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh from London via New Delhi after 290 days of captivity in a Pakistan jail.
