Environment and Forest minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday reiterated that the next general election will be held under the supervision of an interim government and the incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be the head of that government. “No election will be held under non-party caretaker government. The next polls must be held under an interim government and as per the country’s constitution Sheikh Hasina will be the chief of the government,” Hasan told reporters at the end of foundation stone laying ceremony of Atish Dipongkor Smriti Complex and Stapa project at Brajajugini, Munshiganj.
The minister alleged that the opposition does not want dialogue. Instead, they want to fish in troubled water creating anarchy in the country.
Earlier, speaking as the chief guest of a ceremony, the minister also said the opposition leader had called upon her party leaders and workers as well as the city dwellers to stand beside those who torched the Holy Quran, unleashed attacks on Buddhists temples, which is very unfortunate.
Calling upon the countrymen to be united to protect the spirit of Liberation War, he said “we had liberated our country from the cultch of the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971, sacrificing blood of 30 million people.”
He also said the government is committed to curb the forces who wanted to destroy the country’s communal harmony which the people have been nurturing for the time immemorial.
Industries minister Dilip Barua inaugurated the ceremony which was presided over by the Bangladesh Buddha Kristi Prochar Sanga president Shuddhanando Mahathero.
-With The Independent input
