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No room for militancy

Declares PM at Gaibandha, warns perpetrators of violence

UNB, Gaibandha
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the BNP-Jamaat-Shibir will not be allowed to continue mayhem in the country as the government is determined to restore peace.
"There'll be no space for terrorism and militancy on the soil of Bangladesh. Inshallah, we'll ensure peace and security for the people curbing militancy and terrorism," she told a mammoth rally at Shah Abdul Hamid Stadium here.
Mentioning that the BNP chairperson had tried to save the killers of the Father of the Nation in vain, the PM said, "You (Khaleda) have also tried to save the war criminals, but failed. The verdicts of war crimes trial are coming out, the trial will continue and you can't stop it."
"If your [Khaleda) heart burns for Pakistan, then you may go to Pakistan But don't inflict sufferings on the people and play with their fate," she added.
Also the president of the ruling Awami League, Hasina alleged that the BNP chief is trying to stop the war crimes trial. "She [Khaleda) doesn't believe in Bangladesh
and also never believed in the country's independence. So she kills people to save war criminals."
On the January 5 parliamentary polls, the PM said Khaleda Zia had tried to forcefully stop the polls by unleashing terrorist attacks on police, presiding officers, voters and damaging polling centres, but she failed to stop the election as people cast their votes ignoring Khaleda's vote boycott call.
The prime minister blasted the BNP chairperson for having so many birthdays, especially for celebrating it on August 15 when the whole nation observes the National Mourning Day for the killing of Bangabandhu.
Referring to the killing of farmers in Gaibandha during the BNP's rule in 1991 for demanding fertiliser, the AL president said farmers need not to lay down their lives during the Awami League's tenure as fertiliser follow the farmers.
Hasina vowed to make compulsory the computer education at primary level, build at least a tin-roofed house for each family, introduce ferry service on Balashi-Bahadurabad route and a railway bridge if possible, reach power to each house, set up mills and factories by establ ishing a Special Economic Zone in the region, and build free houses for the landless and homeless people in Gaibandha.
She also expressed her firm resolve to build Bangladesh as a hunger- and poverty-free middle-income country by 2021 and a developed country by2041.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, State Minister for Textiles and Jute Mirza Azam, AL leader Abdur Razzaque, lawmakers Faruk Khan, Fazle Rabbi Mia, and Mahbub Ara Gini spoke, among others, at the rally organised by the district AL.
Earlier, the PM inaugurated and laid foundation stones of a number of development projects from the rally venue.
PM WARNS PERPETRATORS
OF VIOLENCE
Describing the pre- and post-election violence in the country by the BNP-Jamaat-Shibir men as a militant act, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the perpetrators of violence will not be spared.
“We won't let our country to become a den
of militants.... We won't allow any space to any militant act,” she told the family members of the victims of violence while distributing cheques of financial assistance among them at the Circuit House.
The PM distributed cheques to 68 family members of those killed and wounded in violence since February 28 last year following the verdict against war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee till the recent post-polls violence.
Miscreants during the period damaged and set fire to 83 primary schools and 34 colleges, madrasas and other educational institutions.
Hasina also directed the district administration to take tougher steps against the destructive activities of the BNP-Jamaat-Shibir men.
"It can't happen that they would unleash attacks on innocent people and we'll accept that. We'll take stem action against all the violent activities by the BNP-Jamaat-Shibir across the country," she mentioned.
Mentioning that her party men did not resort to acts of vengeance following its landslide victory in the January 5 national polls, the PM said the BNP-Jamaat men had also killed some22,000 AL leaders and workers across the country after the2001 national election.