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AL's City Polls Debacle

Hasina blames it on 'propaganda'

UNB Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday blamed the opposition parties' "false propaganda" for the defeat of the Awami League-backed candidates in all city corporation elections.
She came up with the view when the newly elected office bearers of Barisal District Lawyers' Association met her at her office.
Association president KBS Ahmed Kabir and general secretary Mohammad Colam Kabir Badal led the delegation. The PM's press secre-tary Abul Kalam Azad briefed reporters after the meeting.
Hasina blames
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The people who got confused due to the propaganda of the BNP-Jamaat alliance have now realised that they were misguided by the opposition parties, the prime minister said.
"The BNP-Jamaat alliance is very strong and efficient at spreading false propaganda. They spread false information against Awami League."
Mentioning Hefajat-e-Islam's programme on May 5-6 in Motijheel, Hasina said the BNP claimed that several thousand people were killed during the law enforcement agencies' operation on that day.
Referring to the opposition leader's claim in Narsingdi rally that the law enforcement agencies fired more than 150,000 gunshots during the operation, the premier questioned whether it was possible in that shot span of time.
She also said if this alliance comes to power, there will be no Islam in the country, there will be no azan, namaz and janaza in the country.
During her government's previous tenure, the alliance had propagated that a vast area of the country up to Feni would go under India, which was later proved false, Hasina observed.
"Everything is the way it was," she said, adding that Awami League always worked for Islam.
The prime minister said she starts her day by offering Fazr prayers and reciting from the holy Quran. "I don't know in which hand Islam will be safe other than mine."
She noted that Awami League, which has given independence to the nation, always works for the welfare of people to bring a smile to their faces.
Describing her government's various development programmes implemented during the last four and a half years, the Awami League president said her government has made sure that quality education, health care and ICT services are on the doorstep of people.
In this regard, she mentioned that poverty has gone below 26 percent, per capita income risen to 1,044 US dollars, while the country's reserve already crossed the 16 billion-dollar mark.
The government has thereby given the country's economy a strong footing on the one hand, and has created huge employment opportunities and provided various social safety measures for the rural poor on the other, Hasina added.
About electricity generation, the Awami League chief said her government has increased the power generation capacity to about 9,000 MW while actual generation has risen to 6,675 MW.
Criticising the BNP-Jamaat alliance's previous government "that was involved in massive corruption and looting of money", she said the country could not achieve the desired development during their tenure.
The premier mentioned that the BNP chief whitened her black money by paying fines, whereas the present government brought back to the country money that was siphoned off by her son.