Shun politics of destruction
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged opposition BNP and its Chairperson Khaleda Zia to shun “politics of destruction” and instead work for people's welfare and development.
The premier made the call yesterday morning when she visited Faruk and Suman, the two youths who received serious burn injuries on Saturday night when miscreants, reportedly identified as supporters of June 27 hartal, set fire to a vehicle carrying the two friends near Maghbazar rail crossing.
Of the two victims, 60 percent of Faruk's body was burnt while Suman received serious burn injuries on head, face and other parts of his body.
On her arrival beside the bed of Faruk at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Faruk's mother burst into tears as she hugged the PM.
“What harm my son had done to the miscreants. Why did they set fire on my son?” she said.
Consoling her, the PM assured Faruk's mother of bearing all medical expenses of Faruk and Suman.
“Burning innocent people by enforcing hartal without any pro-people issue cannot bring anything good for the people and the nation,” she was quoted as saying by PM's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad.
“I request the opposition party to shun politics of destruction and work for people. Come to the Parliament and do your duty that the people have reposed on you by giving votes for you,” Hasina said.
The PM donated cash money for Faruk and Suman at the hospital.
Faruk's mother narrated how Faruk and his friend Suman were burnt by the hartal supporters.
Faruk and Suman, the two friends who are small businessmen, were to return home on Saturday night after buying some kitchen materials.
As the car carrying them stopped beside a shop near Maghbazar rail crossing, miscreants had sprayed petrol on their car and set it ablaze.
Hasina also visited several other patients, at the burn unit of the DMCH, who were seriously injured in recent Neemtoli fire incident.
She passed some time beside them and reassured them of bearing their all medical expenses.
Health Minister AFM Ruhal Huq, lawmaker Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin, IG of Police Nur Mohammad and DMCH Burn Unit Chairman Dr Samanta Lal Sen, among others, were present.
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