Won't allow anyone to push Bangladesh back to darkness: PM
Staff Correspondent
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the BNP and its allies want the restoration of the caretaker government system not for the election, but to push the country back to darkness again.
"No one will be able to push the country back to the era of darkness," she declared.
Sheikh Hasina, president of the ruling Awami League, was addressing a discussion marking the 104th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at its Dhaka district unit office in Tejgaon.
She said Bangladesh is the country of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib who was born to change the fate of the common people. “And we will bring that change following his ideals.”
The prime minister questioned the logic behind the BNP's demand to restore the repealed caretaker government system to oversee national elections.
“Why do they want that? What is their expectation? In the 2008 election, there was a caretaker government. In that election, they got only 30 seats while the Awami League bagged 233 seats.”
The prime minister said the BNP should remember that.
She said while the Awami League remains in power the poor get food and shelter.
In the country of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she said, no one will remain without a home, address, and land.
The government is implementing programmes to reach this goal, she said. “And that is the thing they [BNP] cannot tolerate. They do not like that the common and poor people live a good life.”
