AL runs on donation, not extortion: Hasina

June 05, 2007 00:00:00

Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina Monday said her party is a people-oriented political party, not a business organisation, which runs on subscriptions of party's leaders, workers and sympathisers, reports UNB.

"We don't do business but do politics for the welfare of the people. So, the donation and assistance that we receive from our well-wishers should not be treated as extortion," she said while talking to party leaders at her Sudha Sadan residence.

Meherpur district AL president Joinal Abedin, Awami Olema League leader Liaquat Hossain Belali, Jubo Mohila League general secretary Apu Ukil and its central leader Sabina Akhter Tuhin met Hasina passing through altercation with the law-enforcers for some time.

They quoted Hasina as saying that many mills and factories in the public sector were in