No need to declare state of emergency: PM

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today ruled out the possibility of promulgating state of emergency in the country right now following the ongoing violence that claimed over 50 lives.
"No such situation has been created in the country for which emergency will have to be imposed," she told the parliament replying to a lawmaker's supplementary question at the parliament.
"Why emergency is needed? None has been able to create any such situation here [in the country] that emergency will have to be promulgated," she said.
Rumours have been running high in the country that a state of emergency would end the violence and petrol bomb attacks allegedly unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat alliance in the last one month.
Replying to the question from opposition chief whip Tajul Islam Chowdhury during PM's question-answer session in the House, the premier said the law enforcing agencies are working to contain the present destructive activities of the BNP-Jamaat alliance.
"People are with us and we will be able to overcome the situation surely," she said adding that the anarchy creators have no public support.
Terming the trouble-makers as terrorists, Hasina, also leader of the house, said the government along with the people would take actions against the terrorists.
She firmly vowed to contain the violence.
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