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Khaleda to face trial for killings

Says PM slating hartal violence

UNB, Kotalipara
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned that opposition leader Khaleda Zia would have to face trial for killing more than 20 people during hartal hours.
"By the grace of Allah, the trial of those killings will be held," she said, adding that the opposition leader has to take the responsibility for the killings.
Addressing a mammoth rally at Kotalipara in Gopalganj, the premier also expressed her apprehension that the opposition leader might try again to kill her.
"She |Khaleda) wants a Hasina-free Bangladesh, she failed to kill me earlier ... she might try again to kill me," Hasina said.
The opposition leader killed more than 24 Awami League leaders and activists through grenade attacks on August 21, 2004, and she is now killing people by imposing shutdowns and setting fire to vehicles, the premier said.
"We came to power with a majority and then we amended the constitution ... We have sealed the scope of grabbing power illegally," she told the rally at Bhangarhat TalimpurTelihati High School ground.
Hasina also said the opposition leader did not want to participate in the election as she would not be able to rig polls this time.
She [Khaleda] never liked free, fair and neutral elections.
Referring to her recent phone conversation with the opposition leader, the Awami League chief said she made the phone call thinking about people's welfare.
"I invited her [Khaleda], but she rejected. She enforced hartals instead and killed 20 people during the shutdowns," the premier said.
She also sought vote for the Awami League (AL) in the next election to complete the unfinished development works of her government.
From the rally venue, Hasina inaugurated several projects in the district and laid the foundation stones of academic buildings of several colleges and union complexes.
Chaired by Kotalipara upazila AL general secretary SM Humayun Kabir, the meeting was addressed, among others, by AL advisory council members Amir Hossain Amu andTofail Ahmed.
Earlier, Hasina inaugurated the construction works of Janzira and Mawa approach roads and Service Area-2 of Padma Multipurpose Bridge at a function at Panchhar in Shibchar upazila.
"The construction work of the main bridge would certainly begin this fiscal year
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Insha Allah to fulfil the long-cherished demand of people in 21 southern districts," she told the function.
The premier also announced that her government had taken a plan to construct an international airport on the western side of the Padma Bridge.
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Faruk Khan, FBCCI President Qazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, AL leader Abul Hasnat Abdullah, among others, spoke on the occasion.