Economy is on right track despite destructive acts: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the Parliament Wednesday that the government has been successful to maintain the desired growth rate with the help of people although Khaleda Zia is trying to destroy the economy, report agencies.
"She (Khaleda) is trying hard to destroy the country's economy, but the law enforcement agencies are very much careful…people are very much cautious, the export growth of the country is on the right track," she said.
The Prime Minister also said she has the conviction that the export of the country will not be hampered and Bangladesh will be able to reach its desired goal.
She said the destructive activities of the BNP-Jamaat alliance are just tainting the country's image abroad. "We've brought everything under control very skillfully."
The Leader of House mentioned that the BNP chief has also tried to destroy the RMG sector which earns the highest foreign exchange for the country.
"But, this sector has been able to achieve its export target," she said.
Hasina also said the BNP chairperson prefers jail as the safest place to protect herself from the public wrath.
"As Khaleda Zia has become isolated from the people due to committing genocide, militant acts and intimidating the people, she herself wants to get arrested, be sent to jail and thinks that jail is the safest place for her to save herself from the public warath," she said.
Sheikh Hasina also said that Khaleda Zia has a habit of staging drama and H M Ershad knows it very well how he has brought out the BNP chief of a room of the Purbani Hotel during the rule of General Ershad.
"She is now staging the same drama to earn the sympathy of the people and get better publicity in the international media by being in the headlines," she said while replying to a supplementary raised by Jatiya Party lawmaker Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu in the House during her question answer session.
The Leader of the House said Khaleda has confined herself into her office.
"All except her leaders and workers are going there, even the foreigners are visiting her. If her leaders and workers do not go there to respond to her call, then what is our fault?," she said.
She said there is none to like Khaleda Zia's militant acts, even her party men do not like it. "I have talked to many former BNP lawmakers, who do not like the terrorist and militant acts of the BNP leader," she mentioned.