Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday warned that those who are agitating for the cancellation of the BCS quota system would “be identified and disqualified for all kinds of jobs in the country.” “Pictures of those who are vandalizing public and private property in the name of movement over BCS quota system would be collected and they would be identified and disqualified during the test, ” she told a meeting of the central working committee of Awami league at Ganabhaban. Reacting angrily over the movement for cancellation of the BCS quota system, Sheikh Hasina, who is also the president of the ruling Awami League, said that those who are talented or gifted cannot resort to violence and anarchy damaging property. “Those who are resorting to vandalism will never get jobs,” she reaffirmed.
The prime minister said that if opposition leader and chief of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power she would undo whatever Awami League has done. The quota system too will be gone, she feared and raised questions: “Shouldn’t the women and the children of freedom fighters get Public Service Commission jobs then?”
Sheikh Hasina recalled the contributions of the freedom fighters during the 1971 War of Independence and said that the people of Bangladesh are in jobs through the Public Service Commission today because of their supreme sacrifices and heroic role. Those who are against the spirit of the War of Independence are inciting the BCS examinees, she observed.
The prime minister further cautioned that those who are killing people and vandalizing vehicles in the country in a bid to protect the war criminals would also be put on trial. “We promised the nation to hold trial of those who committed war crimes during the Liberation War of 1971. That trial is ongoing and inshallah, the verdicts would also be executed,” she assured.
Since the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party refrained from giving any reaction to the verdicts of the war criminals, Sheikh Hasina said it is not clear whether or not BNP is satisfied with the verdicts.
The war crimes trial in fact had begun after the independence but it was stopped after 1975 when opposition BNP took over power, she told the meeting of her party’s powerful central working committee.
Referring to the Hefazat-e-Islam, the prime minister said that this radical Islamic organization likes to stop women’s employment and thus their income generating capacity in the country in the name of religion. “Hundreds of thousands of women across the country will lose their jobs if Awami League fails to return to power in future,” she remarked.
-With The Independent input
