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Published : 25 Jan 2014, 09:34 PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again asked the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to go to Pakistan if she continues to long for that country.
"But don't kill the people of this country, don’t cause them pain," Hasina said at a rally at Shah Abdul Hamid Stadium in Gaibandha town on Saturday afternoon.
"Ten people, including four policemen, were killed in the name of preventing the elections. Several houses and 127 educational institutions were vandalised and torched," she said.
She recalled the violence that took place before and after the parliamentary elections, boycotted by the BNP-led 18-Party alliance.
"At least 20,000 trees were cut down in Gaibandha district and a railway bridge was destroyed. Even animals were not spared. The BNP-Jamaat will have to take responsibility for such destruction and anarchy."
The BNP chief was trying to protect the war criminals, said the Prime Minister. "War criminals will be tried in this land despite the attempts to save them."
She said, "Ziaur Rahman tried to protect the killers of Bangabandhu by sending them abroad. But that attempt was foiled.
“Khaleda Zia also will not be able to save war criminals. Death penalty of one [of them] has been carried out. Trials of the others will be finished. Militancy and terrorism will not find a place here."
Hasina also thanked the people of Gaibandha for electing the Awami League candidate on the Jan 5 polls ignoring the attacks of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.
After the rally, the Prime Minister inaugurated a raft of development projects and establishments in the district.
She also announced that a special industrial zone would be created in Gaibandha.
Unemployment problem in the region would be solved by setting up small and medium-scale industries, she said.
The Prime Minister also announced that the government would build houses for those in the district who do not have their own abode. She also said that victims of river erosion would be rehabilitated.
Earlier in the day, she met the victims of the pre and post-polls violence in Gaibandha and handed them financial aid.
She also ordered the administration to be stricter in order to prevent violence and promised that all those who were involved in the attacks and violence would be punished.
