PM slams Khaleda for 'conspiracy'

Sheikh Hasina. Star file photo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleged again on Saturday that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been trying to stop the war crimes trial by unleashing violence across the country and hatching various conspiracies.

“War crime is a curse for the nation…the Father of the Nation had started the trial of war criminals but Zia (Ziaur Rahman) stopped it after capturing power...now we’ve resumed the trial after we assumed power, but the leader of the opposition has been trying to block it through violence and conspiracies,” she said.

The prime minister was addressing a meeting at Srikail after inaugurating the Srikail Gas Field in Muradnagar upazila of Comilla district in the morning.

Taking a swipe at Khaleda Zia, Hasina alleged that the opposition leader feels uncomfortable as the country’s poor people are graduating to the middle-class status due to various development programmes of her government.

“They (opposition) are killing people by triggering violence and burning Muslims to death…I want to know from the opposition leader how a Muslim can kill another Muslim…I call upon you to refrain from such activities,” the premier said.

Hasina said they (BNP-Jamaat) had come to power making a commitment to foreign powers to sell out the country’s gas. “I had told them (foreign powers) we can’t do that until there is enough reserve of gas for Bangladesh,” she told her audience.

ABM Golam Mostafa, MP, Awami League leader Jahangir Alam Sarder, acting district Awami League President and former FBCCI president Yussuf Abdullah Harun also spoke on the occasion.

While inaugurating the gas field, the prime minister urged the private entrepreneurs to invest in the area by setting up industries as there is gas now.