Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has criticized the BNP saying that a party that fails to wage a movement will obviously fail to win the polls.
BNP repeatedly announced programs to hinder the polls but the people didn’t respond to their calls and foiled their plans, she said while addressing a program on Thursday (Jan 10) at National Krishibid Institution.
Saying that BNP itself was responsible for their defeat in the polls, she added, “The people have turned their backs on them due to their nomination trade, violence, embezzlement of orphans’ money and making the convict the acting chairman of the party.”
BNP itself should think why the lost the polls, Hasina said adding that the party had been responsible for widespread violence in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
She said that BNP carried out strikes and brutal demonstrations in the name to protesting the polls.
In a clear reference to BNP appointing convict and fugitive Tarique Rahman as their acting chief after Khaleda Zia’s imprisonment, Hasina said that this move was one of the reasons people have rejected them as leaders.
“Their party chief is in jail for embezzling money meant for orphans and they made a corruption and Aug 21 grenade attack convict their acting chairman.”
Hasina who has set the record for becoming a prime minister for becoming the PM three times in a row said that the biggest challenge for her to continue the flow of development that her government had started.
The program she was addressing was organized to commemorate the Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
On this Day in 1972, Bangabandhu set foot in an independent Bangladesh after being released from captivity at a Pakistan jail.
Hasina reminisced about the sacrifices he made for the country, saying that it was her goal to turn Bangladesh into the poverty-free, golden country Bangabandhu dreamed of.
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