BNP-Jamaat out to grab power stepping over corpses : Hasina
Monday, 9 February 2015
Accusing BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami of trying to grab state power through undemocratic way stepping over corpses, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina asked them Sunday to follow democratic norms to return to power, report agencies.
"They (BNP-Jamaat) want to lead the country…once they were in power…now they're dreaming of getting back to power, but why do they want to make it by stepping over corpses?".
The PM posed the question while addressing Religious Affairs Ministry officials at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
Sheikh Hasina said the BNP chief has got desperate to return to power by killing people through arson attacks. "What type of thinking is this… what type of activities are these?" she asked.
The PM hoped good sense will prevail and she will stop killing people, lift the blockade and hartal and let the students appear at their SSC examinations.
Asking the BNP chief as to what she has achieved from the ongoing destructive activities of the alliance, Hasina said they have made no gains other than destruction, burning people, destroying public and private property. "If they think they've done a great job, then it's very painful for the nation."
In a scathing attack on Khaleda, the PM said the BNP chief has gone mad, or else, she would not have been staying in her office forgetting about her own residence.
"I cannot understand what type of revolution is she conducting from her office? But, the fact is that she is killing people," Hasina remarked.
The PM said the intention of BNP-Jamaat is to destroy the socio-economic development of the country that has been achieved since 2009.
Hasina reiterated that Khaleda Zia made a political mistake by boycotting the January 5, 2014, general election. "Why the countrymen will pay for her wrong decision," she asked.
Minister for Religious Affairs M Motiur Rahman and secretary of the ministry Dr Chowdhury Md. Babul Hassan also spoke on the occasion while senior officials of the ministry and Prime Minister's Office were present.