No achievement from PM's US visit: BNP

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to the USA, the event she joined at the World Bank headquarters and the meeting with IMF top official resulted in "zero achievement", reports UNB.
"The World Bank's loan was predetermined. It was earlier fixed that they will give this loan. So the achievement in the Prime Minister's visit is zero," he said.
The BNP leader made these remarks while talking to reporters after a close-door meeting with Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Chairman Oli Ahmed at the party chairperson's Gulshan office.
"The IMF has said that under her (Sheikh Hasina) leadership... this is a blatant lie," Fakhrul said adding "We saw the papers... They (IMF) have already made a statement that they did not say this, only discussed in the meeting with her."
Fakhrul said that the government is trying to mislead people from the beginning by spreading lies.
"Since there is no ground under their feet, by spreading this kind of falsehood, they want to spread that the trip has been very successful," he added.
Fakhrul said that people can be fooled for some days by telling lies, but they
cannot be fooled for
long. "Awami League is doing that."
"This time they will fail. Because people have understood their lies. They will oust them from power and establish rule of people," he added.
Responding to a question how he sees the Prime Minister's three-nation tour amid the country's economic woes, the BNP secretary general said, "These whole things or the visits are to prolong their stay in power. But there will be no benefits from doing these."
Meanwhile, when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saw a group of BNP-Jamaat supporters protesting outside Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington DC amid cold and pouring rain, she invited them to come inside to talk about their problems.
But the demonstrators poured cold water on her good gesture and left the place. This happened here on Tuesday.