Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday reiterated that the next general elections in Bangladesh would follow the other parliamentary democracies across the world.
“The next general elections in Bangladesh will be held the way elections are being held in other parliamentary system of democracies,” she said during a meeting with peers and British MPs at her hotel on the last day of her UK visit, reports UNB.
Hasina claimed that all the elections in different tiers held during the tenure of her government were free, fair and credible.
She referred to the recently held four city corporation elections in Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, Barisal and the latest in Gazipur City Corporation where the Awami League-backed candidates were defeated.
Turning to the “Rana Plaza” building collapse on April 24 this year when more than 1,100 RMG workers lost their lives, she said such incidents could take place anywhere in the world.
But soon after the incident, the government took prompt steps to rescue the injured workers and give them proper treatment alongside providing financial assistance to the family members of the victims and the injured, she added.
Hasina also mentioned that after assuming office this time, her government increased the minimum wages of the garment workers.
She, however, noted that despite the rapid flourishing of the RMG industries in Bangladesh, the wage structure of the RMG workers as well as the infrastructures are yet to get full shape.
Lord Tarek Ahmed, Dr Charles Tanok, MP, Jim Fitzpatrick, Jim Fishpetric, MP, Baroness Polauddin and Richard Fuller, MP, were, among others, present on the occasion.
