Good sense to prevail upon Khaleda, hopes Hasina

FE Team | Published: January 25, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina expressed the hope Saturday that good sense will prevail upon BNP leader Khaleda Zia and she will stop the politics of killing and arson attacks, reports UNB.
"I hope good sense will prevail on BNP leader Khaleda Zia and she'll stop the politics of killing people through arson …that want one thing I want from Allah," she said.
The PM said this while inaugurating the much-awaited Sheikh Lutfar Rahman Bridge, locally known as 'Patgathi Bridge', over the Madhumati River in Tungipara Upazila in Gopalganj district through a videoconferencing from her official residence Ganabhaban.
She also laid the foundation stone of 'Kalna Bridge' over the Madhumati River in between Kashiani Upazila in Gopalganj and Lohagara Upazila in Narail, and inaugurated the newly-built 'Tungipara BRTC Training Institute' in Gopalganj.
Accusing Khaleda Zia of launching the culture of burning people to death, PM urged the BNP chairperson Saturday to stop such type of politics.
"Begum Zia has launched the culture of burning people to death to frighten the people and impede the pace of development. But this type of politics should end and I pray to Almighty Allah that a good sense of prevails in her (Begum Zia) to stop such a culture," she said.
The PM said human beings are the best creation (of Allah) and nothing is a heinous crime more than burning people to death. "It is my question to those whose hands have the smell of burnt people, for whose interest they are committing such crimes," she said.
Hasina said the politics of killing people should come to an end forthwith. "Those whose hands have the smell of burnt dead bodies and those who kill people, my question is, for whom they do their politics," she questioned.
The PM also said she wants Khaleda Zia to stop killing people right away. "She's causing many mothers to lose their children …she's forcing numerous people to embrace permanent disabilities," Hasina said.
She said the BNP-Jamaat alliance started the politics of killing through arson attacks to terrorise the country's people, and they started this without any issue.
"We never saw such movement in our lifetime…we were involved in so many movements, but we never killed people, they (BNP-Jamaat) are not even sparing infants, children, and women and youths…this is very unfortunate," she said.
AL never torched any passenger bus when it was in movements, Hasina said adding that it was BNP which always set fire to buses and when it was in power in 2004 brought out one accused from jail and set fire to a bus in front of the then Sheraton Hotel. "Later, cases were filed against our leaders and activists," she recalled.
She categorically said Awami League never ever attacked the general people. "Rather our leaders and activists were killed on various occasions."
On this day in 1988, Hasina said, 30 leaders and activists were killed when she went to Chittagong for holding a rally.
Turing to the ongoing transport blockade, the Prime Minister said agricultural production in the country is now very much satisfactory, but farmers cannot market their produces due to the blockade enforced by the BNP-Jamaat alliance.
"Fifty to 60 drivers of various vehicles, including trucks, buses, have been killed so far, this is too much. The man is he best creature of the nature. This is very much heinous job to kill people through arson attacks and setting fire," she said.