Vested quarters out to create instability in country: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that some vested quarters are plotting to create instability in the country to foil the government's programmes for development.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony of construction work on Jatrabari-Gulistan flyover at Golapbag play ground at Syedabad, the Prime Minister said the evil quarters do not want people of Bangladesh get rid of poverty, hunger and illiteracy.
She was highly critical of the past BNP-Jamaat alliance government for not taking steps to implement the Jatrabari flyover project during its regime though the survey work of the project was completed in 2000.
Hasina said if the BNP-Jamaat government would continue development works initiated by the past Awami League government, the country's people would not be facing the present crises in various sectors including power and energy.
Instead of working for people's development, the four-party alliance government remained busy with amassing huge amounts of money through corruption and looting public money and property.
She termed the past BNP-Jamaat government as “ineligible” and said due to its corruption and irregularities, Bangladesh's development had come to a standstill.
Now when a government has been voted to power, some vested quarters have become active to foil the government's initiatives for improving the living standards of the people, Hasina said.
“We want people to become free from illiteracy, malnutrition and poverty. But the anti-people quarters do not want to let us to implement the projects,” she said.
But, Hasina said, the government is not afraid of any conspiracy, it is firmly committed to continuing its development works.
“People have voted us to power and we will continue to give our best efforts to bring peace and prosperity in people's lives,” she said.
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