Hasina tells AL advisery panel
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that her government would set the example of a smooth transfer of power to the next government in line with the present constitution. In her introductory remarks at a meeting of her party’s advisory council at her official residence Ganabhaban, Hasina also reaffirmed that the next election would be held under the supervision of the present government as per the constitution.
“No military, quasi-military or civil administration in-aid-of-military can resolve the political or economic crisis. The country’s development will not come without uninterrupted democracy”, she said adding that after August 15, 1975, constitutional
transfer of power was never held in the country except in 2001 when Awami League was in power.
“We have to begin the process of holding the election as per the Constitution from a certain stage,” she said expressing her firm stance to hold the next election as per the Constitution.
It may be mentioned that after assuming power, the government has amended the Constitution scrapping the provision of the poll-time caretaker government.
She alleged that the main opposition BNP was trying to malign the AL led government through false propaganda and urged the party rank and file to counter those propaganda so that people could not be misled.
Awami League general secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta, Dr Anupam Sen, Professor Dr Hamida Banu, Dr Hossain Mansur, Dr Durgadas Bhattacharya and prime minister’s media adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury were present at the meeting.
One-minute silence was observed at the beginning of the meeting to show respect to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and others who were killed the fateful night of August 15, 1975.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said a vested quarter is out to put the country in the era of darkness. In this connection, she recalled serial bomb blasts at 500 spots at a time in the country on August 17, 2005, grenade attack on August 21, 2004 and other brutal incidents of killing during BNP-Jammat regime.
Referring to the various development activities of the government and its achievement in all sectors, she said, there are some people who feel bad when the countrymen remain in peace and witness better economic condition.
“There are some people who don’t have the ability to float a party and will never go to the people for vote, but they have strong desire to go to the power, want to fulfil their desire at any cost,” she said.
Hasina said that BAKSAL was not a one party rule rather it was a platform of all parties and groups aimed at forging a national unity.
-With The Independent input
