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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused opposition BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia of hatching a conspiracy to turn Bangladesh into a failed state and called upon the people to remain alert to foil the plot. |
“Bangladesh National Party (BNP) leader Khaleda Zia wants to make the country a failed and dysfunctional state by enforcing anti-government movement,” the prime minister said, adding that the people will no longer stay with her movement as it is being launched only to protect the war criminals.
Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, urged the countrymen to stay alert so that none can hinder the country’s peace and progress.
She was addressing a function on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day held at the Institute of Agriculturists at Khamarbari in Dhaka on Sunday.
Last week, Bangladesh’s internationally-acclaimed economist Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud told an international conference in Dhaka that the country is already witnessing dysfunctional governance.
The premier alleged that BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and the party’s incumbent chief Khaleda Zia have rewarded the self-confessed killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by giving them jobs at different
embassies abroad.
Terming BNP-Jamaat Pakistan’s collaborators, Prime Minister Hasina urged all to remain alert so that this quarter cannot return to power to play with people’s fate.
“We all have to remain vigilant so that those Pakistani collaborators can’t get back to power, kill people and play with the fate of the mass people,” she said.
The prime minister urged people to take a vow to materialise the dreams of the millions of martyrs by building a modern and prosperous Bangladesh where there will be no hunger and poverty. “We’ll have to build the country with the spirit of their dreams and the Liberation War ethos,” she said.
The government is working to that direction, and will turn the country into Sonar Bangla (golden Bengal) as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, Hasina said.
Branding BNP as the companion of war criminals, Hasina said: “It’s the nature of BNP to help the war criminals as its founder Ziaur Rahman had stopped their trial.”
In this connection, the AL president said Bangabandhu had started the trial of the war criminals just after the country’s independence, but, after the change in the political scenario in 1975, Ziaur Rahman stopped it by promulgating an ordinance. “He had also rehabilitated the war criminals in Bangladesh
politics,” she said.
