Refrain from killing people in name of hartal, Nasim tells Khaleda
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
Awami League (AL) presidium member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said Monday the black hands of those who would dare to kill people in their bid to create anarchy in the name of hartal (total shutdown) should be broken, reports BSS.
"Begum Khaleda Zia, your black hands would be broken if you don't refrain from killing people in your bid to create anarchy in the name of hartal. Your acts of terrorism in the name of hartal would no more be tolerated," he said pointing at BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Mohammad Nasim said this while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion at Mohanagar Natyamancha at Gulistan Square in the capital. Bangladesh Krishak League (BKL) organised the discussion in observance of the Victory Day with its president Motahar Hossain Mollah in the chair.
Awami League agriculture and cooperatives affairs secretary Dr Abdur Razzak, AL organising secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, BKL general secretary Advocate Shamsul Huq Reza and organising secretary Sakhawat Hossain Sweet were the discussants, among others.
Pointing at Khaleda Zia, Mohammad Nasim said, "Why you call hartal which people do not want and take to the field? There's no demand in the hartal of yours. Refrain from enforcing hartal unnecessarily for killing people creating anarchy." The senior AL leader called upon the leaders and workers of the AL to take to the streets on January 5 to face anarchy of BNP-Jamaat cronies saying, "Those who pursue the ideological politics of Bangabandhu take to the field on that day. Those who won't remain on the streets on that day should lose the right for doing the politics of Awami League."
Criticising BNP leadership for their comment that there is no democracy in the country, Mohammad Nasim, also spokesman of the ruling AL-led 14-party alliance, said, "There would not have been democracy in the country had the January 5 national polls not been held. The country would have been under martial law had the polls not been held.