Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to get united and form a strong resistance against arson terrorists in the country.
“Stay alert so that the blockaders and the arson terrorists do not get spare. Catch the arson terrorists and set them on fire when they attempt to carry out arson attacks,” the prime minister came up with the call while addressing a programme marking the Jail Killing Day, at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka on Friday.
Terming BNP as a terrorist party, Hasina also president of the ruling Awami League, said they (BNP men) do not know anything except the killing of people.
She asked her partymen to form a resistance not only in Dhaka but also across the country to find out the arson terrorists.
BNP does not want any election but to create anarchy in the country, said the prime minister.
Hasina said Ziaur Rahman was the mastermind of the August 15 and November 3 associations.
Ziaur Rahman was not a genuine freedom fighter as the Joy Bangla slogan was banned during his rule, Hasina said.
BSS adds: Hasina asked the leaders and activists of her party to be united and stay alert to ensure the environment of exercising people's voting right in the upcoming election, as BNP-Jamaat is there to foil the election.
"Every leader and worker of AL have to be united, and the people's right to vote, which we have earned through struggles, have to be ensured. In order for that right to be guaranteed, the environment must be maintained so that people can cast their votes peacefully," she said.
The premier issued this directive while delivering her address as the chair at a commemorative discussion meeting organised by the AL marking the Jail Killing Day at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) here in the capital.
Mentioning that their (BNP-Jamaat) conspiracy is to thwart the election, she said "many hands are behind there to foil the election and they will try in many ways."
"But, our strength is the people, people of Bangladesh," she added.
Sheikh Hasina firmly said that Bangladesh will move ahead with the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the four national leaders, adding that "the few miscreants can't be successful to foil the election."
"None would be allowed to play ducks and drakes with the fate of the people of the country," she said.
AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Presidium members valiant freedom fighter Shajahan Khan, valiant freedom fighter Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram and Simin Hossain Rimi, organising secretary Mirza Azam, central working committee member Dr Mushfik Hossain Chowdhury, Syeda Zakia Nur Lipi, Dhaka South City President Abu Ahmed
Mannafi and Dhaka North City President Sheikh Bazlur Rahman, also spoke.
AL publicity and publication secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap and his deputy Syed
Abdul Awal Shameem moderated the discussion.
At the outset, one minute silence was observed to pay tribute to the national leaders brutally killed on this day.
On November 3 in 1975, four national leaders and heroes of the country's Liberation War -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman-- were assassinated inside the Dhaka Central Jail.
The four leaders played a key role in forming the Mujibnagar government in exile, that led the Liberation War in 1971, with Syed Nazrul Islam as the acting resident, Tajuddin Ahmad as the prime minister, Mansur Ali as the finance minister and AHM Qamruzzaman as the home, relief and rehabilitation minister.