ME to open door if BNP goes to power
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday claimed she would be able to open the manpower market in the Middle East, including the UAE, for Bangladeshis whenever her party returned to power.
She, however, said she doesn't want to be the country's prime minister again.
“I'm on a movement now to save the country, its people and their voting and democratic rights. So, at the fag end of my life, I urge you all to get united to unseat the incumbent illegal and unconstitutional government,” she told a huge rally at the NS College ground in the town.
It's not the responsibility of only the political parties to take to the streets to restore democracy, she observed adding, people also have moral responsibility for taking part in it.
The former PM accused the government of destroying the daily Amar Desh by setting fire to its office at the BSEC building in the capital's Karwanbazar.
Mentioning that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina “could not achieve anything” from her recent tour of the UAE, Khaleda said the incumbent government has become cornered as it got isolated from people at home and abroad.
Pointing to yesterday's countrywide power outage, she said ask the prime minister where have all the electricity she (PM) claimed to have generated through rental power plants gone.
The BNP chief called upon people to take all-out preparations for waging a tough movement. “I won't tell you now when to take to the street. I will make an announcement at the right time.”
On the PM's remark that BNP has lost its ground, she said this mammoth rally has proved that BNP is in a strong position.
Blasting the government for its “increasing repressive acts”, Khaleda said, “Many termed the government autocratic, but I want to say a new Hitler has emerged here and it is killing people; making them disappear like Hitler did and running the country whimsically.”
The government, she added, depends “only on repressive acts, filing false cases and harassing opposition leaders and activists” to be in power.
JAMAAT'S THREAT
Speaking at the rally, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Mojibur Rahman threatened that the party will enforce non-stop hartal if any other of its leaders, including Mir Quasem Ali, is handed punishment by the war crimes tribunals for committing crimes against humanity.
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