BNP slams Hasina for remarks against Khaleda

BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon on Sunday scorned the Prime Minister for asking their party chairperson Khaleda Zia to go to Pakistan, and urged Hasina to came out of dirty political culture. “The Prime Minister at a meeting on Saturday asked our leader (Khaleda) to go to Pakistan…There’s a song ‘Dil me in Hindustan’… but We’re not asking her (PM) to go to India, only calling upon her to come out of such dirty political culture,” he said. Addressing a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, Ripon said, “Our leader is a three-time Prime Minister and two-time opposition leader. She is also the chairperson of the country’s most popular party and wife of the country’s independence proclaimer. Why should she go to Pakistan? She has sacrificed a lot for the country.” Terming Sheikh Hasina’s remarks about Khaleda undemocratic, the BNP leader said, “We strongly condemn her comments,” according to a news agency.