Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her call to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to stop killing and terrorism, terming these type of acts as crimes amounting to capital punishment.
“Stop killing and terrorism, otherwise we would take stern action against all concerned as per laws of the land. These type of activities are crimes amounting to capital punishment,” she warned.
The prime minister said this in reply to a question from treasury bench member Md Monirul Islam (Jessore-2) during her question answer session in the House.
“I would like to tell the BNP leader that the people of this country are very intelligent and they are not with your movement of personal interest. Your leaders and workers have cleared their stance,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the government would take action against all concerned as per the laws if the subversive acts and killing are not stopped. “So, it is my request to stop this killing and terrorism,” she said.
The Leader of the House informed that the BNP-led 20-party alliance has created an extreme anarchy in the country for 52 days since January 5. “Being blind with lust for power, they are killing working class people, innocent commoners including male, female and even children by burning,” she said.
As many as 101 people, Sheikh Hasina said, were already killed, mostly in petrol bombs, over the last 52 days after they came out of their houses for earning their bread. Besides, more than 1,000 people were critically injured in various subversive acts including petrol bomb attacks by the BNP-Jamaat clique, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said 1,173 vehicles were torched and vandalized by the BNP-Jamaat terrorists, who also set fire to six launches and carried out subversive acts on trains for 25 times.
