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Hasina, Khaleda face off

Opposition creating unrest; unhappy with success of govt

Staff Correspondent
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday-accused the opposition parties of attempts to plunge the country into chaos.
Frustrated by their election debacle, she said in parliament, the BNP-led opposition is making 'incendiary' remarks about the BDR bloodbath to create unrest’.
Speaking on the thanksgiving motion on the president's speech, Hasina said she wants to know if new schemes are being hatched to destabilise her government.
She urged the opposition to wait till tire next election for people to decide who should be in power. “Please cooperate with us. Don't do anything that might tarnish the country's image."
She also said she wants to patch things up with her archrival and work together in the interests of democracy.
Refuting Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia's allegations with regard to the government’s handling of BDR crisis, she said,"Perhaps, she is unhappy that the situation did not lead to a civil war and overthrow of the grand alliance government.”
The prime minister asked where "she [Khaleda] went in a car with tinted windows shortly after the mutiny broke out at Pilkhana”.
She said she wonders if the vicious killings of the army officers were a reprisal for the armed forces' role in ensuring a free and fair conduct of the December 29 election.
"They (armed forces) worked neutrally and tirelessly 5o create an atmosphere condu-lve5o holdmg Tc^djbR’ inti peaceful election. It was them who prepared a new voter roll weeding out over one crore ghost voters.”
About government measures to end the Pilkhana mutiny, she said, "I took each and every step in consultation with chiefs of the three forces, and my colleagues in the cabinet and party."
Mentioning the BDR carnage, Hasina observed that only those who patronise war crimi-nals and the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman can commit such atrocities.
She warned the opposition leader against making statements that might influence the investigation.
Citing the caretaker government's ban on her return from abroad, the premier said former adviser Major Gen (retd) MA Matin called her and asked not to fly back home.
"When I enquired why, he said they were doing a great job, they are trying to send Khaleda into exile. 1 protested the move and eventually got back home defying the government restrictions.”
She said the BNP chief would have been forced to go abroad, had she [Hasina] not returned to the country braving all odds.
At that point. Speaker Abdul Hamid said it seems to him that the two leaders in fact helped each other indirectly.
In over onc-hour-long speech on the concluding day of the current parliament session, Hasina described the previous AL-led government's success in different sectors.
She said she considers presidency an institution and so she is in favour of thanking the Eresident (lajuddin Ahmed) for is address to the ninth parliament.