Defeated forces won\\\'t be able to rise again: PM

FE Team | Published: August 31, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Terming BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia a killer,  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that the defeated force would not be able to rise again in Bangladesh, reports UNB.
"The defeated force will not be able to rise again on the soil of this land. The people will not allow that," she said.
The Prime Minister was addressing a big rally held at the Suhrawardy Udyan.
Dhaka City Awmai League organised the programme marking August 15 tragedy that saw the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most members of his family in 1975.
Dhaka City Awami League president MA Aziz was in the chair.
Sheikh Hasina said that the killers of Bangabandhu would not be allowed to stay in the country.
"The trial of the killers have been completed, we have implemented the verdict. Those who are still absconding will be executed," she said.
Khaleda Zia, she said, killed hundreds of people in the name of movement to resist the Jan. 5 parliamentary election.
Hasina said that innocent people travelling by buses, trucks, auto-rickshaws, trains and other vehicles were killed by the activists of BNP-Jamaat alliance. Even they did not spare livestock.
"Nothing could escape them and it seemed that her thirst for killing never could end," she added.
Hasina said that it was as if agitation means killing people and movement means playing with human blood.
"Her masters, the Pakistanis, did the same thing. Khaleda Zia with her son continued killings the same way," she said.
She also termed Khaleda Zia as a person of "'perverted characteristic and mentality" as the BNP chairperson observed her 'false birthday' on August 15.
She mentioned that by observing her birthday on Aug 15 Khaleda made it clear that she was with the killers and she did not believe in the country's independence.
She said Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia started taking the country backward following the killing of Bangabandhu.
"It seemed they considered Bangladesh was not an independent country, it was still the province of Pakistan," she said.
She said those who were still fond of Pakistan should leave the country and go to Pakistan. The Prime Minister, also the president of Awami League, said Khaleda belonged to that group of people.
"That's why when the people of the country are living in peace, her heart burns. When Bangladesh gets honour, she cannot accept that totally. Because she is the companion of the defeated force, this should not be forgotten' she said.
Mentioning that she did politics to serve the country and its people, Hasina said that she had nothing either to lose or gain.
"That's why I am not afraid of my death. I have sacrificed a lot for welfare of the people of this country," she said.
She urged followers of the ideals of Bangabandhu to always remain ready for sacrifice for the welfare of the country and its people like the Father of the nation.
AL leaders Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta, Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Mahbubul Alam Hanif and Dhaka City AL general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya also spoke on the occasion.