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Padma bridge graft culprits to be tried

Warns Khaleda

Star Report
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said if her party was elected to power in future, the people involved in the Padma bridge corruption would be brought to justice.
She said this while visiting the areas recently hit by landslides at Yasin colony under Khulshi Police Station in the port city in the morning.
She went to Chittagong to stand by the victims, she said, adding her party would always stand by disaster-stricken people.
The opposition leader reiterated her commitment to building two
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bridges over the Padma river if her party won the next general polls.
Later, she and her party members distributed relief from the Ziaur Rahman Foundation.
On her way back to Dhaka in the afternoon, she addressed a gathering at Fulgazi Bazar in Feni after distributing relief materials amongflood-affected people.
The ruling party before the 2008 elections had pledged to build the Padma bridge. But the World Bank has cancelled its loan for the bridge, alleging that the government is corrupt.
"This is a killer, failed and corrupt government.... They [govt] should quit immediately if they have a minimum sense of dignity," Khaleda said.
The former premier continued that other donor agencies would also not provide any support for the bridge as they had lost confidence in the government because of corruption.
"So, there'll be no develop-
ment in the country during the present government's rule."
Khaleda also blamed corruption for the journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder. "They [Sagar-Runi] were killed as they had detected corruption by the government and wanted to expose it"
This government killed more than 6,000 people since it assumed office, she said..
Khaleda Zia went to Chittagong on Saturday and left for Feni at noon yesterday.
Prior to leaving the port city, she visited Akbar Shah Mazar area where scores of people were killed in landslides. She distributed relief among 300 family members of the victims.
Over a hundred people were killed and many others were injured in the recent natural calamites, including landslides, in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Bandarban.
In addition, several lakhs of people in Chittagong and Feni have remained marooned due to incessant rain for over a week and onrush of water from hills.