Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the opposition has called another 60-hour strike as they don’t want dialogue and peace. Referring to the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance, she also called upon the people to build a strong resistance against those who are resorting to violence and are killing people in the name of movement. “BNP and Jamaat are resorting to repression and torture on the people in the name of movement. So, you will have to build resistance against those who are out to keep you without food by creating anarchy and terrorism, and are killing people by hurling bombs,” she said.
Addressing a public meeting, organised by Rajbari district unit of Awami League, on Pangsha University College ground, Hasina, also the president of ruling Awami League, said that the BNP comes to power to destroy the country through corruption, militancy and terrorism, but Awami League government never allows corruption.
The prime minister also inaugurated and laid foundation stones of several development projects in Pangsha.
At the rally, the prime minister said the nation made great strides in the past couple of decades but the opposition leader’s proposal regarding the poll-time government will take the nation back to 1991.
UNB adds: The Prime Minister alleged that the opposition leader wants to disrupt the Junior School Certificate examinations, beginning Monday, by enforcing another unnecessary hartal. She also urged the opposition leader to allow the students to finish their academic life peacefully. “Let them sit for their exams please.”
Referring to the previous spell of 60-hour hartal, the Awami League chief further alleged that the opposition leader killed 20 people in the last 60- hour hartal. “I phoned her and requested her to withdraw the hartal. But you all know what was the way she replied to me,” Hasina lamented.
Chaired by Rajbari district AL president Zillul Hakim, MP, the rally was addressed, among others, by Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, AL leaders Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed and Overseas Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minster Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Railway Minister Mojibul Huq and Rajbari AL general sectary Alhaj Kazi Keramat Ali, MP.
-With The Independent input
