Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called upon the countrymen to remain alert so that the killers, anti-liberation forces, terrorists and militants never come to power. “As we achieved independence through the supreme sacrifice of lakhs of people, our independence cannot come to nothing . Killers must not be allowed to rule the country,” she said at a discussion meeting held at Krishibid Institution auditorium in the city.
Marking the Jail Killing Day, ruling Awami League organised the discussion. Sheikh Hasina, also President of Awami League chaired the discussion. She sad those who encouraged the killers of four national leaders will not be spared. She urged the country’s people to remain careful so that the anti-liberation forces, killers, militants, the August 15 and November 3 killers, August 21 grenade attackers, arms smugglers and those who embezzled orphans’ money cannot return to power and play ducks and drakes with the fate of the people.
She also vowed to uphold the rights of the people by building a hunger-and-poverty-free ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by the Father of the Nation. Sheikh Hasina also expressed her firm determination to eliminate corruption, terrorism, militancy and drug abuse from the country.
“We are working hard in order to establish a poverty-free Bangladesh. And our government wants the people to be freed from the curse of poverty and they will get a better life,” prime minister said. Sheikh Hasina said Father of the Nation had started working to free the nation from hunger and poverty within only three and half years after starting journey from zero.
“But all his initiatives were destroyed after 1975,” she said. Referring to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Sheikh Hasina said the party is facing serious leadership crisis. “The killer Zia’s wife Khaleda Zia is also a killer. And their fugitive son Tarique Rahman is also a killer. And this is what is known as BNP’s leadership,” she said.
Earlier in the morning, the nation observed the mournful Jail Killing Day by paying rich tributes to four national leaders and Liberation War heroes, who were brutally murdered inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975. When Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was detained by the Pakistani junta, the four national leaders — Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, AHM Qamaruzzaman and Captain M Mansur Ali — led the country’s independence war.
They were sent to jail after the gruesome killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members on August 15, 1975.
