Taking a swipe at a section of the country’s “eminent citizens” who suggested the government to defer the January 5 polls, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the actors of 1/11 have become active again, reports BSS. “I have seen in today’s newspapers that some “eminent citizens” have given some suggestions to us. I don’t want to say anything about them. But many of them whom we had seen after the 1/11 have now become vocal again,” she said.
The Prime Minister said: “I would like to tell them one word why their spirit has arisen so lately. Why their spirit was not awakened when BNP-Jamaat stopped the JSC and JDC examination by enforcing hartal.”
She said why they could not say to the opposition not to call hartal during the exams of the children. “Why they remain silent when the BNP-Jamaat terrorists kill sleeping people including the children by hurling bombs at the buses and uproot and cut trees rampantly in the name of so-called movement,” she asked.
The Prime Minister said this while receiving this year’s JSC and JDC exam results at her official Ganobhaban residence here this morning.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and chairmen of nine education boards handed over the results to the Prime Minister.
Sheikh Hasina said when the coming elections have reached such a stage at that time the “eminent citizens” want to stop the polls. “We will have to opt unconstitutional way if the polls are stopped at this moment. I don’t know whether they are inviting such an unconstitutional way,” she said.
The Prime Minister said the remaining work of the “eminent citizens” are accomplished when democracy and constitutional process do not exist in the country and when those grab power unconstitutionally. “The ‘kadar’ (importance) of the “eminent citizens” increases and they can move with flags at that time. This is their (eminent citizens’) consideration, I don’t see other thing,” she said.
Courtesy of BSS via The Independent
