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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2025
Arsonists, saboteurs have no right to do politics: PM Hasina

Bangladesh

UNB
14 December, 2023, 06:55 pm
Last modified: 14 December, 2023, 09:00 pm

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Arsonists, saboteurs have no right to do politics: PM Hasina

UNB
14 December, 2023, 06:55 pm
Last modified: 14 December, 2023, 09:00 pm
The ruling Awami League organised a programme on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day on 14 Dec. Photo: PID
The ruling Awami League organised a programme on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day on 14 Dec. Photo: PID

Those who resort to arson attacks, destruction, and sabotaging rail lines have no right to do politics in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday.

"They are collaborators of the defeated forces of 1971," she said this while addressing a discussion at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC).

The ruling Awami League organised the programme on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day.

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Hasina said, "The ghosts of occupational Pakistani forces who were defeated in 1971 are now engaged in a conspiracy against the people of this country, killing people and are planning to kill more."

"I am urging you all to resist them. If the people come forward in places where fishplates are removed then these conspirators will not get scope to run away," she said.

She urged all to remain cautious regarding this matter.

"These people just know how to destroy, they do not know how to create or build. They can kill people, but not provide peace and security to people's lives. All have to remain cautious from them," she said.

Hasina, also the ruling Awami League chief, asked all to nab the perpetrators red handed while they would go for any destructive activities and arson attacks. 

"Steps have to be taken against them," she said.

Regarding the demand of BNP to restore democracy in the country, she said that they are talking about democracy after pulling out fishplates that derailed trains and killed people. 

"How could they talk about democracy, killers cannot give democracy, people of the country have to understand that," she said.

The prime minister said that the blood of martyrs did not go in vain as today's Bangladesh is the changed Bangladesh. 

"Today we got recognition as a developing country. Bangladesh will move forward as a developing country. The dream of the Father of the Nation to build a hunger and poverty free Bangladesh is being fulfilled," she said.

She mentioned that Bangladesh is now a truly independent country. 

"People of Bangladesh have got back their rights to vote and democracy. They will use their voting rights. They will live in peace and get developed. That is our aim," she said.

Awami League praesidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, central committee leader Advocate Tarana Halim spoke, among others, at the programme.

Children of martyrs Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and Nuzhat Chowdhury also spoke.

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