Anti-liberation forces still active: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the people to guard against those who had opposed Bangladesh’s liberation.

The Awami League chief was speaking at a rally organised by the Bangladesh Chhatra League at Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan on Sunday.

She said those who oppose every activity of her government were ‘a pack of dogs’ loyal to Yahya Khan, Pakistan’s president during 1971.

“The students of this country must be careful about those who were behind Aug 15, Aug 21 and continue to act as barriers to development,” she said at the event commemorating the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

She said there were two ways of practising politics – “you can be a giver or a taker.”

“There are many who want to hoard money and be called aristocrats. The military rulers who forced their way to power patronised these people so they could act as their base,” she said.

Hasina, Bangabandhu’s eldest daughter, said he made countless sacrifices for the people and cared for them more than his own family.

She urged members of the Chhatra League to live by his ideals.