Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday requested the opposition BNP to call off their May 2 hartal considering the humanitarian ground as the rescue operation at Savar is going on. \u201cIt\u2019s very disheartening that the opposition has called the hartal at a time when the rescue operation, treatment and rehabilitation works are going on,\u201d she said after her visit to Enam Medical College Hospital and Savar CMH where a good number of Savar building collapse victims undergoing treatment. The BNP-led 18 party called the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal demanding the arrest of Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana, garment factory owners and other issues for May 2.
\n\u201cI would request them to withdraw the hartal and donate the money that will be spent on enforcing the hartal,\u201d Hasina said questioning the reasons behind calling the shutdown programme . \u201cFor whom this hartal is, whom will it help actually?\u201d
\nShe mentioned that the owners of the building and the garment factories have already arrested, but there had been no arrest when such accident occurred during BNP\u2019s rule and the army-backed caretaker regime.
\nHasina said it was very much unlawful act to force garment workers to enter the factories despite knowing that the building was in great danger. \u201cNo one will be speared,\u201d she categorically said.
\nThe Prime Minister said she told the BGMEA and BKMEA leaders when they called on her after the incident that the government will not spare the garment factory owners and they would be arrested.<\/p>\n

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