I\\\'m not so weak: Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has renewed her call on everyone to join forces together in pushing the ruling party from power. ‘This government will have to go in order to save the country. All of us will have to unite and take to the streets now,’ she said on Sunday at a programme at her Gulshan office. ‘I will be in the streets too. I haven’t become that weak (to leave the streets) yet.’ Khaleda, who took the helm of the party after her husband Ziaur Rahman’s assassination, has held the office of the prime minister thrice. At the age of about 70, she is preparing to lead her party in the movement for an early election under a nonpartisan, neutral government. Regarding the ‘failure’ to thwart the January 5 national elections, she said, ‘The people had sealed the government’s fate after the events of Dec 29 last year. They (government) had brought the country to a halt. The government had laid a siege to Dhaka using police and Rab. I was locked up in my house for three days,’ she added, according to a news agency.