PM asks BCL leadership to earn peoples\\\' confidence

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the newly-elected office-bearers of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to work to regain trust and confidence of the people in student politics and warned that she would not allow any wrongdoings.
"You'll have to regain the trust and confidence of the countrymen in glorious student politics so everybody could see that you could give something to the nation. The BCL could show path to others in such a way," she said while addressing a view-exchange meeting with the newly elected central committee of the BCLand other leaders of different units of the student front at her official Ganobhaban residence in the capital in the afternoon.
Sheikh Hasina said some scattered incidents took place in student politics in the past but she did not give indulgence to anybody in this regard, a BSS report said.
"I did not tolerate any kind of unjust action in the past and I won't allow it in the future," she said, asserting that such a message will have to be spread all over the country.
PM's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy, newly elected BCL President Saifur Rahman Sohag and General Secretary SM Zakir Hossain, immediate past president of the organization HM Badiuzzaman Sohag also spoke on the occasion while ex-BCL general secretary Siddiqui Nazmul Alam conducted the function.
Sheikh Rehana's son Radwan Mujib Siddique, Joy's wife Christine Overmeyer, Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and AL Joint Secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak were present on the dais, among others.
Earlier, the newly elected BCL leaders greeted the Prime Minister by presenting bouquets.
Noting that the country had to brave many attacks and storms like heinous act of burning people to death, Sheikh Hasina said that strong organization is needed so that none could anymore burn people to death in the country and could play ducks and drakes with the fate of the country's people.
Pointing out the holding of the just-concluded BCL council and election through transparent ballot box, she said that the BCL leaders and workers have set an example which could be replicated by others.
"But, I don't know whether others will follow it or not," she said.
-SS