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Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said there is now no scope for the BNP to come to power with the support of foreigners.
"It is impossible to assume power by lobbying foreigners... It seems like someone coming from outside will take the BNP to power through the cradle. It (BNP) has been dreaming so. Once upon a time, they could make it happen by acting as a broker (of foreigners). But there is no scope left in Bangladesh to go to power through the acts of an agent," she said.
Sheikh Hasina called upon the countrymen to boycott the parties formed illegally by military dictators and remain vigilant against them.
She said this while chairing a discussion arranged by Bangladesh Awami League at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city, marking the Martyrs’ Day and International Mother Language Day, reports UNB and BSS.
Hasina said that the people of the country have now become much more aware and they know better about the country, its history and the target of the Awami League government.
BNP leaders are going to their local and foreign masters and lodging complaints against the Awami League government despite the fact that they did nothing (wrong) with them in comparison to their misdeeds with her party (AL) when it was in the opposition, she alleged.
The prime minister said that the BNP, while in power, never allowed the AL to take to the street and unleashed inhuman torture to their leaders and activists, referring to the BNP's nationwide movement without any interference of the government.
Hasina said her party was not allowed to stage processions and rallies during the BNP regime. AL faced obstacles everywhere and its leaders and activists were tortured. Even AL women were beaten and their clothes were torn down on the streets at that time.
“How can we forget it? But we didn’t go to take revenge. We paid attention to the development of Bangladesh and we worked to develop Bangladesh,” she said.
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader gave the address of welcome.
Party’s Presidium Members, Deputy Leader of the Jatiya Sangsad, Begum Matia Chowdhury, and Mofazzel Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique, Advisory Council Member Prof Dr Sadeka Halim, actor Ferdous Ahmed, AL Information and Research Secretary Dr Salim Mahmud, working committee members Nirmal Kumar Chatterjee and poet Tarik Sujat, Dhaka North and South City AL President and General Secretary respectively Sheikh Bazlur Rahman and Humayun Kabir, among others, spoke at the meeting.
Awami League Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, and his deputy Syed Abdul Awal Shameem moderated the discussion.
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