PM now blames Khaleda
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that BNP chief Khaleda Zia is conspiring from abroad to destabilise the country through killing foreigners in Bangladesh.
She was speaking to the newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong, Barisal, Rangpur, Gopalganj and Gazipur bar associations at the Gono Bhaban.
The PM said Khaleda “killed people” in the name of agitation when she was at home. “Staying abroad, she is now killing foreign nationals to create panic among them for tainting the country's image.”
“What's their new technique? The BNP-Jamaat clique engaged lobbyists in various countries, including in the UK and the USA, to spread a propaganda campaign against the country,” added Hasina, also the Awami League chief.
The BNP-Jamaat put in their all-out efforts to “tarnish the country's image and for that they killed people and did whatever necessary to carry out their plot,” complained the AL chief.
She urged people to stay alert against Khaleda's “conspiracy” and sought cooperation from all to foil the “evil design”.
Referring to the BNP leader's “self-confinement” at her Gulshan office for long 92 days earlier this year, Hasina said Khaleda had announced not to return home until the AL government was dislodged.
In trying to do that, the BNP leader had begun “killing people, throwing petrol bombs, burning bus passengers to death as she did in 2013 in the name of movement to foil the national election”, said the PM.
On the judiciary, the premier said her government has taken various programmes for it, including setting up of Bangladesh Judicial Training Institute, Speedy Trial Tribunal, National Legal Aid and Services Organisation and formation of Judicial Services Commission.
Digital data has been made for all laws. Besides, the government has a plan to digitise all communication systems of the High Court with other courts, she noted.
Hasina said e-libraries will be established in court libraries in phases and necessary assistance will be given for supplying more books there.
People, she said, want justice as it is their rights and the AL government has been working to ensure that.
The PM sought cooperation from people in establishing Bangladesh as the most peaceful and prosperous country in South Asia as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Earlier, the presidents and general secretaries of the bar associations greeted the PM by presenting her with bouquets. Najibullah Hiru, general secretary of Dhaka District Bar Association, conducted the programme.
Law Minister Anisul Haque, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, AL Advisory Council member Yusuf Hossain Humayun, AL Law Secretary Abdul Matin Khasru, former chief whip Abul Hasnat Abdullah and Law Secretary Abu Saleh Sk Md Zahirul Haque were present.
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