Khaleda should have resigned before charter remarks: PM

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday said that the opposition leader Khaleda Zia should have resigned from parliament before threatening to throw away the constitution.

'How dare she [Khaleda] says she would throw away the constitution,' said Hasina, adding that such utterances proved that the BNP chief did not believe in the sovereignty and independence of the country.

Inaugurating a blood donation camp at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the morning, the prime minister also questioned if Khaleda had love for the country.

Krishak League, an associate body of AL, organised the camp as a part of the month-long programme marking the National Mourning Day.

'How would she [Khaleda] love the country. She was not born here.  She was born in India,' said Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League.

The prime minister also accused BNP's founder Ziaur Rahman of patronising the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founding president, by providing them with jobs abroad.

'Ziaur Rahman gave the killers of Bangabandhu jobs in different Bangladeshi missions abroad,' said Hasina, adding that HM Ershad had also tried to reward the killers of Mujib.

She said the BNP had passed the caretaker government provision after holding a 'fake election' on February 15, 1996. 'Three elections were held under caretaker governments but they failed to fulfill the expectations of the people,' Hasina said urging Khaleda not to try to mislead the people.

The AL president also said that free, fair and credible elections could be possible under the government of AL and it had been proved in the last municipal polls, by-elections and union council elections.

Bangabandhu Samaj Kalyan Parishad also held a discussion at Teachers Students Centers of Dhaka University on the day marking the National Mourning Day.

AL presidium member Obaidul Qader and Dhaka University vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique spoke, among others, at the programme presided over by the parishad president Shamsul Haque Bhuiyan.

The AL and its associate bodies began month-long programmes on Monday in observance of the National Mourning Day on August 15, the 36th anniversary of the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Source : New Age