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Bangladesh
Khaleda to bring graft, terror again if goes to power
2012-11-23
[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...
yesterday ridiculed BNP chief Khaleda Zia
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
over the latter's vow to give the country a facelift if her party returned to power and said the former prime minister would only replace the prevailing "peace" with "terrorism, militancy and corruption" in the name of change.

"What did she [Khaleda] mean when she talked about change? Will she bring back terrorism, militancy, grenade attacks and corruption in the name of changing the face of the country?" Hasina asked while referring to Khaleda's recent speech at a Barisal rally.

The prime minister also alleged that the BNP chief would stop the ongoing trial of war criminals and rehabilitate them again.

"The nation will judge their [BNP-Jamaat alliance] misdeeds at the next election as they did in the previous one [in December 2008]. They will then come to senses," said Hasina. She was addressing a view exchange with the party's grassroots leaders from Sylhet city at her official residence Gono Bhaban.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith, PM's Adviser Alauddin Ahmed, minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta, Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui and State Minister for LGRD Jahangir Kabir Nanak were also present in the meeting.

Recalling various misdeeds of the BNP-Jamaat alliance regime, she said, "Grenade and kabooms took place at least 10 times in Sylhet division alone. Law and order worsened because of repressive acts.

"[But] I can claim now that peace is prevailing in the country as the government has been able to tackle extremism and militancy successfully with an iron hand, although the opposition parties are trying to create anarchy at some places," said the prime minister.

Claiming that her government was able to rein in corruption, the prime minister feared that the opposition leader would unleash the menace again in the name of changing the face of the country if she returned to power.

"There was no incident of bombing in the country in the last four years. But the opposition leader, in the name of changes, will patronise cut-throats to stage incidents of bombing in all 64 districts of the country."

Stating that the government would distribute 29 crore free textbooks among students next year, the Awami League president said, "[But] Khaleda will stop this in the name of changing the face of the country. What's the use of education? The opposition leader has proved that one can be prime minister without having any mentionable education."

After the killing of Zia, the premier said, it was said that he had left only a broken suitcase and a torn vest. "May I ask how you [Khaleda] have become so rich? Do you have any magic lamp?" she questioned.
Posted by:Fred

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