Make sure evil forces don’t return to power

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the people to remain cautious so that the country does not go under the control of the evil forces who were involved in the August 15 massacre.

“I urge the people to remain cautious so that the country never again falls into the hands of the Hyenas who were behind the brutal assassination of August 15,” she said.

The PM was addressing a discussion at the city’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre yesterday. The Dhaka south and north units of Awami League organised the event marking the National Mourning Day.

Hasina said the people of Bangladesh had lost their hope of living, dignifying their lives and all other possibilities after the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

“We have restored those hope and possibilities for the people of the country. Let those hopes and possibilities not fall into the hands of those Hyenas again.”

She said the conspirators had tried to distort the history of the country and its struggle for freedom by killing Bangabandhu and his family members.

Responding to BNP leaders’ claim that how could their party be termed “the party of killers” although it did not exist during the August 15 events, Hasina said Ziaur Rahman was involved in the conspiracy and established the killers socially, politically and gave them opportunity in business activities.

She alleged that Zia, founder of the BNP, was a murderer who kept the killers of Bangabandhu with him and did everything. “Then there is nothing to claim that this party is not the party of killers.”

The PM said Khaleda Zia had awarded the killers of Bangabandhu and the four national leaders after coming to power. “My question is what kind of party is it if not a party of killers?”

Hasina said the post-August 15 governments had tried to make the defeated forces of 1971 happy by turning Bangladesh into a failed state.

“Their objective was to thwart the dream of Bangabandhu by preventing the people of the country from getting a developed and prosperous life.”

She said the goal of her government is to take the country forward. “We have achieved that by the grace of Allah. From here, nobody will be able to pull down Bangladesh.”

The PM said the father of the nation is not alive, but his ideology is there. “If anyone wants to be successful in politics, that person must follow the footsteps of the father of the nation.”

Dhaka North AL President AKM Rahmatullah presided over the meeting.