Politics of dead bodies over
Hasina tells Khaleda
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses Panchagarh party leaders at her official residence Gono Bhaban yesterday.
Exhorting her political arch rival Khaleda Zia to stop doing “politics over dead bodies”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the days were gone when dead bodies were the pathway to power. “Stop playing politics over dead bodies. This ill-motivated plan won't work any more,” the premier said, referring to the opposition leader. Hasina was talking to Awami League leaders from Panchagarh at her official residence Gono Bhaban as part of her ongoing view exchange meetings with grassroots leaders. Members of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) and Panchagarh AL leaders, local party lawmakers, party-backed upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen attended the meeting. The PM mentioned that the war crimes trial was now the demand of the masses. Hasina said the Pakistani occupation forces had committed crimes at the behest of their mentors. “But how did the sons of this soil commit killings, looting and arson, and hand over women to the Pakistan army?” she questioned. About the comparison of the Awami League with the BNP by some quarters on the caretaker government issue, Hasina said the AL had demanded the caretaker system after witnessing the Magura by-polls and Mirpur, Tejgaon, February 15 elections and other local government polls. “The BNP had rigged those elections using muscle power,” she said. “It won't be logical if anyone compares the demand of Khaleda for a caretaker government and the demand of the AL for introducing the caretaker government system. “There was logic in our demand, but in the BNP's demand there is no logic,” she said. Hasina said the AL had established the people's right to vote and her party would allow none in the future to snatch it away. Referring to Khaleda's recent remarks that she would make the government lame and crippled, Hasina said, “people know it well who is lame and disabled. We won't allow making our people lame and crippled as long as we are alive,” she told the meeting.
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