Desk Report
Publish: 25 Sep 2021, 03:54 pm
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina || Photo: Collected
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the people who do not
believe in Bangladesh’s independence were actually out to tarnish the country’s
image at home and abroad by hatching conspiracies.
“They're the enemies of the country’s
people,” she told a reception accorded to her by the US chapter Awami League at
New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott Hotel here on Friday night (BD time early
today).
Joining the reception virtually,
Sheikh Hasina, also the AL President, said some elements staying abroad are
indulged in plots against the government to taint the country’s image at the
time when her government has taken Bangladesh to a dignified position.
In this connection, the premier
called upon all to remain alert so that none can play ducks and drakes with the
fate of the people.
Politics is not meant for enjoyment
rather it is for sacrifice, she said, adding Zia, Ershad and Khaleda Zia never
thought about the welfare of the people, rather they touted power as “a means
for enjoyment and making some quick bucks”.
Highlighting country's stunning
development in the last one era, Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh has become a
role model of uplift before the entire world due to relentless efforts of her
government.
Referring to some elements who are
calling the Awami League government as illegal, she said, “My question is that
how they get the chance for uttering those words?"
The AL president added they are
getting the scope for criticizing the Awami League by taking advantage of
'Digital Bangladesh vision' which was materialized by her government.
“If they had an ideology, they could
never do that. They are basically criticizing the government after being paid
by the BNP-Jamaat clique,” she continued.
In this regard, Sheikh Hasina said
military dictator Ziaur Rahman and Ershad came to power by violating the
country’s constitution, and the court declared their governments as illegal.
She went on saying that Khaleda Zia,
the wife of Ziaur Rahman, was jailed for embezzling money of the orphans, while
her son (Tarique Rahman) was convicted in the 10-truck arms haul case and the
grisly August 21 grenade attack case.
The FBI of the United States had
revealed the information regarding their involvement in corruption, she said.
The prime minister said the BNP even
had paid money to kidnap and kill Joy (Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed) in the USA.
“But now they are calling the Awami
League government illegal,” she said, adding the people of the country have
voted AL to power, boycotting the BNP.
Sheikh Hasina urged the BNP to take
part in the general election if they have faith in people's mandate.
She said Ziaur Rahman had first
manipulated the electoral system by holding farcical “yes/no” vote while
Khaleda Zia surpassed him with staging the 15th February, 1996 general election
as no other political party joined it and the people did not go to the polling
centres for vote.
Sheikh Hasina said the information on
Khaleda Zia and her two son’s involvement in corruption were exposed in Bangladesh
and the USA as well.
Her two sons -- Tarique Zia and Koko
-- were convicted for siphoning money off the country while the government had
already brought back a portion of it, she said.
“It is their character to lead lavish
life abroad by smuggling out money,'' she added.
When the AL came to power after 1975,
the people of the country first realized that the government is for serving the
people and for the welfare of the people, the Prime Minister said.
“As long as Awami League remains in
power, Bangladesh continues to march forward,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina mentioned two reasons
of her arrival in New York by a Dreamliner of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines
with the first being giving money to the state owned carrier instead of others
and remaining the money at our own hand in that way.
The Prime Minister said her
government is pursuing a process to resume Biman's operation on Dhaka-New York
route.
She reminded all that Khaleda Zia
went to Saudi Arabia taking 150 suitcases with full of money when she was in
power and kept those by hiring lockers there.
She also said (state) minister (for
home) of Khaleda Zia’s government Babar was netted with several lakhs of
dollars in the USA airport and later he was released by intervention of the
local Bangladesh embassy. (BSS)
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