Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said election would be held again, if necessary, after the January 5 polls by dissolving parliament if BNP shuns hartal, blockade and violence and cuts ties with Jamaat-e-Islami. She said election process has already started and BNP has missed the polls train as it did not come to the elections. The Prime Minister said the dialogue between the ruling party and the opposition is going on and it would continue after the 10th Jatiya Sangsad polls.
“If we could reach an understanding through the discussion and if opposition shuns hartal, blockade and violence and cuts ties with Jamaat-e-Islami, election will be held again as per the constitution, if necessary,” she said.
“So I would like to tell the opposition leader to stop hartal, blockade, burning the people to death and cutting trees and sever ties with Jamaat-e-Islam,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League chief, said this while delivering her introductory speech, at a joint meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee, Election Conducting Committee and AL Advisory Council at her official Gonobhaban residence here this evening.
Blasting the BNP-Jamaat for calling a fresh four-day blockade starting from Saturday, the Prime Minister said they have announced a war against the country and its people by enforcing hartal and blockade one after another.
Denouncing as well as protesting again the condemnation resolution adopted by the Pakistan parliament over the recent execution of war criminal Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, Sheikh Hasina said the verdict has been executed as per the law and they (Pakistan) have nothing to say to this end.
She criticised the stance of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan Niaji, the nephew of notorious General AK Niaji, for his comments about Quader Molla’s execution.
Alleging that the BNP-Jamaat alliance has waged war against the country and its people only to thwart the trial of the war criminals and halt the country’s advancement, the Prime Minister said the trial of the war criminals is the aspirations of the country’s people as well as the human rights to those who have lost their near and dear ones by the cohorts of the Pakistani occupation forces during the War of Liberation in 1971.
Sheikh Hasina also took a swipe at the environmentalists for not protesting against the rampant cutting of thousands of trees across the country by the BNP and Jamaat-Shibir terrorists in the name of movement although they were very much vocal against the coal-fired Rampal Power plant.
-With BSS/The Independent input
