BNP’s Politics Over COVID-19 Vaccines Will Go in Vain: Hasan

Criticizing the politics of BNP, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Friday that party now wants to do politics about coronavirus vaccines, but their expectations will not be fulfilled.

"BNP's intention is to stir up a pandemic situation... unfortunately they have failed and now they want to move with vaccines, but their efforts will be in vain," he said as Chief Guest of the Bangabandu Festival in Ramu here on Thursday night, reports BSS.

He said, "The government led by Prime Minister Sheik Hasina has made all-out arrangements to provide the people with the necessary VOCID-19 vaccines."

After the outbreak of the pandemic, BNP was designed to make agitation capitalise on the issue of the pandemic, as they expected thousands of people to die of starvation, the Information Minister said, adding that their 'ill-motive' ultimately did not succeed.

“Not a single person died in starvation because of the time-befitting initiatives taken by the government led by Sheikh Hasina,” he told the 4th-day programme of the festival held on Ramu Khijari high school premises.

Chaired by valiant freedom fighter Nurul Haq, the festival was also attended by Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan and local lawmaker Saimum Sarwar Komol as the special guests.

Dr Hasan said, “BNP is now speaking out on vaccines as they first disseminated the propaganda that the government will not be able to make vaccines available in the country. But their allegation has been proved wrong.”

Hasan blamed BNP for making falsehood repeatedly and said now the party is publicizing that vaccines are expensive.

“With the initiatives of the government led by the Awami League, the people will get vaccines in time,” Hasan said.

In recognition of the unprecedented government initiatives in developed countries such as Europe and the United States of America (USA), the Information Minister said that the country is now undergoing change as the government launches 'old and widowed' allowances, saying that allowances for lactating mothers and women abandoned by husbands have also been initiated.

But the people who do not like development, always intends to criticize the government, the minister said.

The country once was a food deficit one which is now a food surplus country, said the minister. Country’s such overnight changes did not taken place because of any magic, but it has been possible due to the dynamic and charismatic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he added.

Criticizing the BNP, the Railways Minister said BNP has no uniformity in their works and speech as they only blame the government based on false claims.

The government is now giving utmost importance to the development of Cox’s Bazar, the only tourism spot of the country, he said.

The construction of the railway lines will be completed at the end of the next year and then the people could travel to Cox’s Bazar boarding on train from the capital, the minister told the function.