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Govt will implement the HC verdict against capturing power illegally: PM Sheikh Hasina

July 27,2010

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that no benefit would come from giving death threat; the government would perform its responsibility by implementing the High Court(HC) verdict against capturing power illegally and trying the crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation. In reply to remarks of a BNP leader that she will face the same consequences like her father, the Prime Minister said, "I am not afraid of death as the life and death is decided by Allah and none would be able to do any harm to me as long as the Almighty keeps me alive." Sheikh Hasina was addressing a function arranged on the occasion of the founding anniversary of Awami Sechchhasebak League at Ganobhaban this morning. "Same sort of statement was given before planting 76-KG bomb at Kotalipara and the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka to kill me," she said. The Prime Minister added: "I believe that Allah is keeping me alive as He wants that I perform some responsibilities." She said the people would not be misguided through bad remarks as they know well that who worked for the people who did not and who played what roles. Acting president of Awami Sechchhasebak League Advocate Mollah Mohammad Abu Kawsar and General Secretary Pankaj Devnath also spoke on the occasion. At the function, the leaders of the organization greeted the Prime Minister by presenting a bouquet and adorning her with a badge. Mentioning the role of Sechchhasebak Bahini and later Sechchhasebak League from the time of the War of Liberation to other movements, Sheikh Hasina said the organization will have to earn confidence and trust of the people by doing work for their welfare. She asked the leaders and workers of the organization to refrain from the activities that increase sufferings of the people and said that some opportunists creep into the government all the time and they think that their misdeeds would go unheeded and they would be spared. The Prime Minister said those engaged in injustice would not be spared; whoever they might be and whatever the party they belong to.

To this end, Sheikh Hasina referred to the unbridled bribery, corruption, terrorism and plundering of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government and said for these misdeeds, the people rejected them in the last general elections. She said the BNP-Jamaat alliance government earned thousands of crores of taka through corruption and they thought they will win in the elections through the illegal money. "But money always cannot do everything and to retain power, confidence and trust of the people will have to be achieved," she said.

The Prime Minister said the BNP-Jamaat alliance government had tried to cling to power by raising the service age of judges to install the party man to the post of the chief adviser and appointing the President as the chief adviser. "But their ill efforts were foiled by the people," she said. She said the BNP-Jamaat alliance also tried to win the last general elections by incorporating 1.23 crore fake voters in the voters list and the 1/11 was created due to these reasons and the BNP-Jamaat alliance is mainly responsible for it.

The Prime Minister said the holding of a free, fair and acceptable election was possible due to preparing a transparent a voters list by excluding 1.23 crore fake voters with the help of Bangladesh Army. And in that elections, she said, people had given mandate spontaneously in favor of Awami League and Mohajote. "The verdict and responsibilities, the people have given to us, will be protected at any cost," she said.

Referring to the High Court verdict against capturing power illegally, Sheikh Hasina said Ziaur Rahman captured power after the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She also mentioned the incidents of Ziaur Rahman announcing himself as the President and formation of a party to legalize power and said that welfare of the people is not possible through a party born in an illegal way.

The Prime Minister said that only her party handed over power peacefully and constitutionally in 2001. To this end, she said the BNP tried to cling to power through voter less elections on February 15 in 1996. "But BNP had to quit power in the face of movement of the people," she said. Sheikh Hasina termed the five-year rule of Awami League from 1996 to 2001 as a golden era and said after coming to power in 2001, the BNP government gave the people nothing but corruption, terrorism and plundering.

She said the Awami League-led Mohajote government was voted to power through a landslide victory in the 2008 general elections. "We will have to remain alert so that our any work does not breach the trust the people reposed in us," she said.

The Prime Minister urged the leaders and workers of Sechchhasebak League to strengthen their organization and work unitedly to build Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Bangabandhu.

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