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Shun 'ill attempts' to topple govt

PM asks opposition leader

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yester-day asked Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia to shun 'ill attempts' to topple the government and launch programmes that serves public interest.
Referring to BNP chairperson's remark that the ground for greater unity of people and stronger movement has been created, she said, "Stop killing the innocent people in the name of creating ground."
"How, being a Muslim, Khaleda Zia gives direction for burning another Muslim to death?” she questioned, referring to the death of Faruk Hossain in a pre-hartal arson attack.
Faruk was allegedly killed by hartal supporters who set fire to his taxicab near Maghbazar rail crossing on June 26 night.
"Tty to gain peoples' confidence and give programmes for them," Hasina said, inaugurating a voluntary blood donation programme, organised by Bangladesh Krishak League on the premises of house No 32 at Dhanmondi.
The blood donation marks the beginning of a month-long programme in observance of the National Mourning Day on August 15, the 35th death anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“You are creating ground for movement by burning down innocent people. Stop creating anarchy and violence in the country. Tell people what you can do for their development,” the premier said.
On the opposition's threat to unseat the government, Hasina posed a counter-question whether the opposition leader and her party
has such confidence that people will bring them to power if the present government is unseated?
Hasina urged the opposition leader to make promise that they would not kill innocent people, do not commit corruption and patronise militancy in the future.
“You should not forget that people cast their votes against the four-party alliance for their limitless corruption and patronisation of militancy," she said.
The premier said BNP has formed alliance with Jamaat, the party that raped hundreds of women and killed thousands of people during the 1971 liberation war.
She said the opposition party is out to create instability in the country as they do not want welfare of the mass people.
“We are running the country fairly. That's why the opposition
party is not finding anything to launch movement. So, they are now killing the innocent people to create ground for movement,” Hasina noted.
Sheikh Hasina also the President of Awami League said whenever her party starts work to bring prosperity to people's lives, BNP and its allies resort to conspiracy to unstable the society and the country.
The PM said the opposition party has become desperate to foil the government development programmes as they had failed to rig the last general election.
“They had thought that they would continue to loot public property and money by winning the last election,” Hasina said.
She deplored that the last BNP-Jamaat alliance government had turned Bangladesh into a fooddeficit country while the previous
Awami League government made it self-reliant in food.
Literacy rate also decreased during the BNP-Jamaat rule, she said.
During the five years' 'misrule' of the four party alliance, Bangladesh earned bad name as a militant country, but in the last seventeen months, already the nation has been successful to get rid of the 'stigma', she said.
The PM urged her party leaders and workers to work for the mass people with the spirit and ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Krishak League President Mirza Abdul Jalil presided over the function while Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzak and Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque also addressed.