PM warns of action against any 2015-like violence
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned of tougher actions against any attempt to create disorder in the name of politics under orchestrated plots like that of the 2015 one staged by BNP.
"It was the wrong decision on the part of Khaleda Zia to boycott the general elections in 2014. A political party must pay itself for any wrong decision of its own," she said while addressing a discussion organised by Bangladesh Awami League (AL) marking Jail Killing Day at the capital's Krishibid Institution Bangladesh.
Hasina, also the president of AL, said the country's people resisted them in 2015 when they tried to take revenge of their wrong decision on the people.
In future people will resist any such attempt as well, she added.
She said BNP and anti-liberation forces thought of sending AL to oblivion through killing Bangabandhu, four national leaders and thousands of party leaders and activists in 1975 and afterwards.
"But, they failed to do it as the root of Awami League is in deep of the people of the country," Hasina added.
On November 3, 1975, the four national leaders -- Bangladesh's first Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, AHM Qamruzzaman and Captain Monsur Ali, who led the 1971 Liberation War, were brutally killed in captivity inside the Dhaka Central Jail.
The meeting, chaired by Sheikh Hasina, observed one minute silence in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his wife Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, martyrs of August 15 and the four national leaders.
Newly elected AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader delivered an introductory speech in the programme.
Deputy Leader of Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, AL Advisory Council Member Suranjit Sengupta, and presidium members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Mohammad Nasim and Dr Abdur Razzak and joint secretary Abdur Rahman took part in the discussion.
Daughter of Tajuddin Ahmed and AL Central Working Committee member Simin Hossain Rimi, general secretaries of Dhaka City south and north units of the party Shah-e-Alam Murad and Sadek Khan respectively addressed the programme conducted by Publicity Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud and Deputy Publicity Secretary Aminul Islam.
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