Bangladesh surely to be free of militancy: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia should be tried in public for inducting convicted war criminals into their cabinets.
She said this while addressing a meeting at Krishibid Institution, Bangladesh in the capital, arranged by Awami League's Dhaka north and south units on the occasion of National Mourning Day.
“What should be the punishment of those who made the war criminals ministers? Country's people will have to think about it,” she said.
Talking about militancy and terrorism, she said Bangladesh will surely be free from this social menace.
She also quipped that the BNP chief sheds crocodile's tears whenever intelligence agencies find out militants and terrorists, and law enforcement take prompt action and whenever they are killed. “What will she do if they are caught alive? Would she worship them?" she said.
As the BNP chairperson stressed the need to arrest the militants alive to know their roots, the PM said there is no need to find their roots. “Instead, it has to be inquired whether the root came from the person who is vocal in favour of them." The prime minister urged the leaders and workers of her party to take a vow to build a nation which will be free from poverty, hunger and illiteracy.
AL presidium member Sahara Khatun MP, AL joint secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Food Minister Qamrul Islam, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon also spoke.
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