BNP gives ultimatums with ill motive, says Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday came down heavily on the Leader of the Opposition for giving the government ultimatum one after another and said people observed her motive of such provocation few days ago.
"BNP gives all ultimatums with ill motive as the party and its leader do not like to see people live in peace. They don't believe in people's power," she told a public gathering organised by Awami League's Joypurhat district unit at the Circuit House ground here in the afternoon.
Hasina asserted that none will be allowed to play with the voting rights of people in future. "People are the owners of their voting power and none will be able to snatch their power," she added.
"I'm ready to make sacrifice like my father to establish the rights of people... I'm not greedy for power. My aim is to establish a Sonar Bangla as dreamt by the Father of the Nation and millions of martyrs of independence," she said.
The prime minister said the BNP leaders have forgotten that they made the country a terrorists' heaven. Sons of the Leader of the Opposition were found guilty in the US federal court, bringing an embarrassment for the whole nation, she said.
Criticising BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for her demand for restoration of caretaker government system, she said, "Once they could not even realise what is a caretaker government; but now, they're shedding crocodile tears on the issue.”
She urged the Leader of the Opposition to refrain from its movement aimed to save the war criminals. "When the countrymen are united for their trial, the leader of the opposition is waging movement for their protection," she regretted.
President of the district unit Shamsul Alam Dudu presided over the meeting when party advisory council member Abdul Jalil, former minister Mohammad Nasim, Joint general Secretary Mahbul Ul Alam Hanif, Abdullah Abu Sayeed Swapan, Shahin Monwara Haque MP also spoke.
Minister for fisheries and animal resources Abdul Latif Biswas, State Minister for liberation war affairs Captain (retd) ABM Tajul Islam, state minister for science and technology Yeafesh Osman, State Minister for law Quamrul Islam, State Minister for youth and sports Ahad Ali Sarkar, Fazley Rabbi MP, Abdul Mannan MP and Khaled Mahmud Chowdhury MP, were present.
Hasina, also the AL president, said her government is working for socio-economic development of the people. During the Awami League tenure in 1996-2001, she said the government chalked out a plan to fulfil the basic demands of people. But, the next BNP-Jamaat government halted many programmes depriving people of getting access to food, shelter, health and education.