BNP-Jamaat out to fully destroy country: PM

Wondering that hartal and blockade programmes are these days called from undisclosed locations, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday said the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat-e-Islami clique has indulged in a dirty game to fully destroy the country, and sought the cooperation of all in stopping this criminalisation.‘When we are moving the country ahead, evil efforts are there to push the country towards destruction, and this can never be tolerated,’ she said.
The prime minister said this after handing over the Ekushey Padak-2015 at a function at city’s Osmani Memorial Auditorium to the country’s 15 eminent personalities in recognition of their glorious contributions to their respective fields.Apparently pointing at the BNP chairperson, Hasina asserted that it cannot be tolerated that the country’s people would pay the price or be killed for someone’s political wrong decision or someone’s personal failure.

Sharply criticising the BNP-Jamaat for burning people to deaths in the name of hartal and blockade programmes, the prime minister said when people are getting all kinds of services and dreaming of a better, and the country was moving ahead in all the fields, their dreams are being shattered and burned all of a sudden.
‘What kind of politics it is to burn people to death? This is not politics…I cannot understand what kind of movement is this?’ she added.‘Announcements (of hartal and blockade) these days come from secret places, and people are being killed through hurling petrol bombs or people are being burned to death. They (BNP-Jamaat) have indulged in a dirty game to completely destroying the country,’ she said.Mentioning that Bangladesh was not now lagging behind in any field, including sports and games, culture and education, she questioned, ‘Then why such destructive acts are being unleashed?’

She said Bangladesh was now regarded as a role model of development in the whole world and also is among the first five growing countries of the world.
Hasina said there were some people who often try to put her and the BNP chairperson in the same scale. ‘Why is such injustice? One has been killing people while another is serving people and making unrelenting efforts to improve their lifestyle.’Continuing her attack on the BNP-Jamaat ally for pushing the lives of the students especially the SSC examinees into uncertainty through calling hartals on the every working day during the exams, the prime minister said it seems that they have called the hartals against the students and examinees.‘They (BNP-led 20-party) have gained nothing through obstructing the path of academic life of the students except killing innocent people,’ the prime minister noted.

Citing the countrywide brutalities unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat hooligans in the name of hartal and blockade, she said so far some 93 people have been killed while over a thousand were injured. ‘Many are also passing days in pains in various hospitals.’‘What are their offences? Why are brutal attacks made on them since they are not engaged in any politics rather they simply lead their own lives,’ she added.The prime minister went on saying, ‘Although human being is the best creature on earth, how the BNP-Jamaat elements can kill and burn innocent people to death. Even Islam is a religion of peace, then how a Muslim can kill another Muslim.’
About February 21, she said this day has brought a different dimension to the lives of the country’s people as Ekush lit the flame of the spirit of all. ‘Ekush has taught us not to bow down to anyone…Ekush is the cornerstone of our language, culture and self identity.’The Prime Minister said her government has established the International Mother Language Institute to collect, preserve and flourish the languages of the small, ethnic groups of the world.

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