Ruling out again the possibility of any dialogue with Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday the best option for the BNP chief to surrender to court, report agencies.
"What's the dialogue with her? What dialogue with the person who is a killer, who has got blood in her hands, whose hands are stinking with the bad smell of burning people?" she asked.
The PM stated this while addressing a grand rally organised by Bangladesh Peshajibi Samonnay Parishad (BPSP) at Krishibid Institution Bangla- desh in the city with its president Justice AFM Mesbah Uddin Ahmed in the chair.
BPSP secretary general Prof Dr Kamrul Hasan Khan delivered the welcome speech.
BPSP presidium members and PM's Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, Dhaka University vice-chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique, Dr Mahbub Hasan, AFM Bahauddin Nasim, MP, architect Habibur Rahman, Dr AQM Sirajul Islam and Anisur Rahman Khan also spoke on the occasion.
Sheikh Hasina, also the president of the ruling Awami League (AL), said Khaleda Zia killed infants, expectant mothers as she does not consider people as human being. "On top of it, she's the leader of militants, who will hold dialogue with militant leader Khaleda," she questioned.
Before the January 5 polls, the PM said, she had invited Khaleda Zia to hold a dialogue, but she rejected it. "I had tried a lot, I had said…let's participate in the election, even I offered to involve BNP in the election-time government with some ministries, but she didn't respond."
Sheikh Hasina advised the BNP leader to surrender before court as an arrest warrant has been issued. "I'll advise her to surrender, that's better for her, it'll better for her to go there," she said.
The AL chief also said if Khaleda does not surrender before court the government is bound to act as per the court order. "And that order will be implemented in time," she said.
She said her government will do whatever needed to end the ongoing miserable days that had been created by Khaleda Zia. "This is our commitment," she said adding that she needs cooperation from all in this connection.
The PM asked the BNP leader that she has no right to indulge in things that only bring bad for the people of the country. "People won't accept this, they won't tolerate it," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said Khaleda Zia has failed to create any movement involving the people of the country.
"Yes, we had also carried out our movement, but with support from the people. That was a mass movement, the people of the country came out on the roads," she said recalling that their movement had forced Khaleda's government to step down on March 30, 1996 after holding a voter-less election on February 16 on the same year.
Reiterating that boycotting the 10th general election was a political mistake of Khaleda Zia, Sheikh Hasina said now she wanted to take revenge on people.
"Why do people have to pay for your wrong decision, why? It's not easy to play with the fate of people of Bangladesh, at least, I won't allow this as long as I'm alive," she added.
Mentioning Khaleda Zia's dependency on others to be in the power again, she said Khaleda Zia did not get any support from anywhere.
"She didn't get any response from those on whom she is dependent…. north or west, no country responded to her call, no quarter because of her militant character, no one can support burning people," she said.
