Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday renewed her call to the opposition leader to place her demand which ministries she wants in the all-party polls-time government to oversee the next general election. “I asked her to place her demand which ministries she wants in the all-party election-time government, but she didn’t pay heed to my request,” she said seeking names from the opposition for her proposed all-party election cabinet.
The Prime Minister was addressing a mammoth rally at Porsha College Ground organised by Porsha unit of Awami League.
Also the President of the ruling Awami League, Hasina said she showed her magnanimity by offering BNP to be part of the all-party polls-time government. “The ruling party has proposed forming the all-party election-time government although it has 90 percent seats in Parliament, but she (Khaleda) didn’t want to listen to that and she would enforce hartal and kill people,” she said.
The Prime Minister asked the opposition leader to participate in the election and let people cast their votes freely.
The Awami League chief alleged that the opposition leader cannot go to sleep without seeing a dead body. “She (Khaleda) can’t sleep without seeing any dead body and this is right as she recently said she wanted to see Hasina-free country.”
Hasina mentioned that the opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat wanted to kill her through a grenade attack on August 21, 2004 where 22 AL leaders and activists, including Ivy Rahman, killed.
She alleged that BNP chief’s son Tarique, her cabinet member Salam and Pintu were involved in that attack and this has been proved.
About the ongoing hartal enforced by the BNP-led 18-Party alliance, the premier said ‘terrorists’ of the BNP-Jamaat are killing people. “They set fire to vehicles, while people are dying in the fire these culprits are flashing their teeth,” she said.
Hasina said today the pro-hartal terrorists injured 35 people by charging bombs.
Accusing the BNP-Jamaat of killing people by setting fire, the Awami League president wondered how a Muslim could kill another by putting on fire and requested the opposition leader not to make any mother’s lap empty in the future by enforcing hartal anymore.
-With UNB/The Independent input
