Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in conversation with Haslinda Amin, editor-at-large of Bloomberg and anchor of the 3rd Qatar Economic Forum, at Raffles Hotel in Doha on Wednesday. — PID DOHA, May 24 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday made it clear that the next general election in Bangladesh will be held under her Awami League government and it will be free and fair.
"So under our government, definitely election will be free and fair," she told a session titled "In conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina" of the Qatar Economic Forum at the Raffles Hotel here in Doha.
Haslinda Amin, editor-at-large of Qatar Economic Forum anchored the session.
The prime minister's assertion came as the opposition BNP and its allies have launched a renewed campaign of street protests asking her government to step down to pave the way for holding the next election under a neutral caretaker administration.
Bangladesh is due to go to polls by December this year or in the first week of next year.
Responding to a question, she said that after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, military dictators jeopardised all election processes.
"The election was just a game (then)," she said.
She recalled that when the Awami League elected her as its president back in 1981 in her absence only then she could return to the country.
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