Hasina slams media for ‘better Khaleda coverage’

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday said that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khlaeda Zia, had distributed patrol bombs from her office to kill people and now she was distributing leaflets seeking vote for her mayoral candidate. ‘Abdul Awal Mintoo [BNP chairperson’s adviser] sponsored the supply of the patrol bombs to kill people and set buses on fire. How she [Khlaeda] is now seeking vote for bus [polls symbol of Mintoo’s son Tabith Awal],’ Hasina said at a programme at Krishibid Institute auditorium in Dhaka. Hasina said this indicating Khaleda’s electioneering on Saturday in favour of BNP-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka north city, Tabith Awal. Bangladesh Krishak League arranged the programmes marking its 43rd founding anniversary. Hasina also criticised the media for highlighting Khaleda’s election campaign ‘ignoring development works’ she inaugurated on the same day.

Hasina, also the Awami League president, said that it was a wonder that the media became more interested in giving better coverage of the programmes of Khaleda, ‘who burnt people to death’ than the coverage of development works of the government. Referring to the reply of businessmen to Khaleda with smiling face during her campaign in a shopping centre, the prime minister said, ‘What a peculiar country we live in! The businessmen, who incurred huge loss due to the blockade and hartal of Khaleda, also welcome her with smiling face.’ Hasina said that the level of publicity of Khaleda’s leaflet distribution in newspapers proved that journalists might like Khaleda most. The prime minister said that it was still a mystery why Khaleda had left home for her office and gone back home staying at the office for 92 days.

Hasina said that Khaleda wanted to oust the government by burning people but the fire she had ignited also burned her own hands. She wondered that how people extended their support to BNP and alleged that its founder and present chairperson killed thousands of innocent people including farmers, rehabilitated the war criminals and wanted to turn Bangladesh into a beggar nation. Krishak League president Md Motahar Hossain Molla presided over the function, which was also addressed, among others, by Awami League presidium member Matia Chowdhury and agriculture affairs secretary Abdur Razzak.

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