Hasina urges all to combat evil forces

Accusing Khaleda Zia of looking for newer pretexts to wage a fresh movement, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday urged the people of the country and her party leaders and workers to get united to stand against any evil force, reports UNB.

"The mass people and our party leaders and workers need to be united to stand against any kind of evil force…we'll build a hunger- and poverty-free 'Sonar Bangla' in light with the spirit of the Liberation War," she said.
Hasina, also the President of Awami League, was addressing a mammoth public rally at the historic Suhrawardy Uddyan in the afternoon, marking the 7th March, organised by the ruling party.
Chaired by Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, the rally was addressed, among others, by Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, AL Advisory Council member Suranjit Sen Gupta, AL joint general secretaries Mahbub ul Alam Hanif and Dr Dipu Moni, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, and State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.
Highlighting various aspects of the historic 7th March speech of the Father of the Nation, Hasina said the country would be built in light with the directives of the speech of Bangabandhu on March 7 and then January 10.
She also expressed her firm resolution to turn Bangladesh into a prosperous middle-income one by 2021 and a developed one by 2041 alongside turning it into a peaceful country in South Asia.
The Prime Minister also highlighted various achievements of her immediate past and present governments in different fields, saying that Bangladesh is now a role model of development as it has proved its mettle.
"Due to the success of the last five years, we've been able to free the country from the black list of militancy, terrorism and money laundering," she added.
Hasina alleged that the BNP chairperson is now looking for newer excuses to wage a fresh movement. "Now she (Khaleda) is supplicating those whom she had driven away before."
The Prime Minister said the character of BNP-Jamaat has got exposed before people, and they would not accept the killers anymore.
Referring to the 'over enthusiasm' of some foreign diplomats in Dhaka over Bangladesh's political issues, she said there are some ambassadors who meet the BNP leader every week or after every 15 days and lodge complaints against Awami League.
In this connection, Hasina said Awami League never supplicates anyone, as the party believes in people and in their empowerment.
The Prime Minister said her party has restored the constitutional and voting rights of the common people. "The constitution was earlier dissected by Ziaur Rahman through grabbing power illegally."
Shrugging off BNP-Jamaat's help seeking from others, Hasina warned that no one would be allowed to play 'ducks and drakes' with the fate of the country's people anymore.
"Many plots had been hatched, but those failed. The people of Bangladesh would stand on their own feet without depending on others," she asserted.
"The BNP chairperson doesn't like education, as she herself had failed in her exams. So, she wants our children to fail in their exams," Hasina also said.
Referring to the BNP chairperson's speech in Manikganj that she would save the country for which she needed blood and bodies. "I don't know how much blood and how many corpses would be required to quench her (Khaleda's) thrust."
Extending her heartfelt thanks to the people of Bangladesh for not responding to the so-called movements waged by the BNP-Jamaat to foil the January 5 election, Hasina said it is their character to try to save the war criminals and engage in killings.