AL blames PM for by-polls blueprint
Staff Correspondent
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has virtually come to a standstill as the prime minister is fully occupied with the Dhaka-10 by-polls."Currently no file moves from one place to another as the prime minister is busy with laying plans to maneuver the election result to see her candidate winner," Hasina said while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion organised by AL to mark its 55th founding anniversary at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh. Hasina, also the leader of the opposition in parliament, alleged the government is massing criminals from every corner of the country and spreading black money to swing the election result in favour of the four-party alliance. She blasted the government for not arresting the killers of Ahsanullah Master MP."The killers of Ahsanullah Master MP are still at large because state minister for home affairs and some other influential leaders of the BNP are involved with the killing," AL chief said. She alleged the government has set free some 70000 listed criminals to perpetrate violence against AL leaders and workers all over the country. Hasina also accused the BNP for harbouring the fundamentalists. "Though a freedom fighter's wife, Khaleda Zia has joined hands with the anti-liberation elements and that's why the government can't take action against the extremists," the former prime minister observed. "Activists of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal have grown so desperate that they don't hesitate even to kill police personnel," Hasina said adding, "A bodyguard of Dhaka's mayor and some other ministers are involved with the murder of cops." Speaking at the discussion, AL presidium member Suranjit Sengupta accused the PM of making a blueprint for killing the opposition leaders and workers. The discussion meeting was addressed by, among others, AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil, Presidium Member Tofail Ahmed, Zillur Rahman, Abdur Razzak, Barrister Amirul Islam, Editor of the Daily Sangbad Bazlur Rahman and Dhaka University Professor Dr Harunur Rashid.
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