People to foil 'blueprint' of installing govt of handpicks: Khaleda

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Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia Wednesday fired a broadside at the caretaker regime for what she called its 'blueprint' for installing a government of handpicks through a 'sham' election, with a note of caution that such a move will be foiled by the people, reports UNB.

In her bitter salvo from the dock of a special court, her second appearance in a week to stand trial in a graft case, she charged the incumbent government with violating the Constitution time and again and hanging on to power on various pretexts.

Khaleda alleged the 1/11 episode was staged to fulfill the 'high ambition of a handful of people,' which she said is now crystal clear to all after 16 months of their rule.

'When the country is on the verge of destruction, they are still have a lust for power