Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the countrymen to forge unity against the evil forces that are involved in the incidents of killing, arson and bombing.
“The BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami are counting dead bodies to show their success in movement, which reflects their perverted mentality. It is misfortune for the nation that the BNP, one of the country’s main political parties, is indulging in terrorism in the name of movement,” said Hasina, according to state news agency BSS.
The premier said this while delivering her speech at the Sardah Police Academy in Rajshahi after taking salute at a training-completion parade of the trainee assistant superintendents of police of the 31st BCS.
Hasina also distributed cheques from the Prime Minister’s Fund for the rehabilitation and treatment of families of 98 people who were subjected to “atrocities” committed by the Jamaat-Shibir over the last year in different parts of Rajshahi.
Hasina dubbed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as the “queen of destruction” as she said the BNP chief did not know any other politics except for destruction, according to a separate report of the BSS.
“Begum Zia is a queen of destruction. She knows only destruction. She can only take but cannot give anything,” the premier said adding that BNP’s coming to power only meant the return of terrorism and militancy in the country. “She cannot give anything positive for the country except for terrorism and militancy,” Hasina said.
While addressing a public meeting at Charghat High School Ground this afternoon, Hasina said the BNP took a beastly revenge on the countrymen by burning the people to death for not responding to its movement. They killed 135 people, 26 bus passengers, 55 bus drivers and 18 members of the police, the BGB and the army by enforcing blockades for 34 days.
The prime minister said the BNP had orchestrated a reign of terror when it was in power from 2001 to 2006. “They created a dreadful Bangla Bhai along with widespread militancy in the country during their five-year misrule,” Hasina said.
She said the character of the BNP had always been the same since its birth. “The traditional saying ‘black will take no other hue’ only goes with the character of the BNP.”
Hasina said Khaleda had cursed her party with a humiliating failure by enforcing a hollow movement with no response from the people. “This is yet another failure in her life after dozens of the same including the first failure she experienced in her matriculation examination,” the premier added.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, former food minister Abdur Razzaque, former state minister and AL Joint Secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, former state minister Omar Faruq Chowdhury and former Rajshahi city mayor Khairuzzaman Liton also addressed the rally. Charghat upazila AL arranged the rally with its President Anwar Hossain in the chair.
