Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia would be tried ‘someday’ for the deaths during the recent shutdowns.“She (Khaleda) will have to take responsibility for them,” Hasina told a rally in Gopalganj, her ancestral home, on Tuesday.
“We will try these killings someday,” she said.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance is trying to enforce a third spell of shutdown across Bangladesh in as many weeks to press for a non-party government to supervise the upcoming national polls.
Hasina said at least 20 people had been killed so far during the strikes.
She also criticised the Opposition demand for a non-party polls-time government.
The two leading political alliances are at loggerheads over the nature of the election-time government.
“We want to ensure the people’s basic right to vote.
“The BNP says it will boycott the polls since it will not be able to rig them,” claimed Hasina.
She said no one had any scope to question the fairness of nearly 6,000 elections conducted at various levels under her government as they were free of rigging.
Hasina, also the ruling Awami League chief, spoke of her government’s successes in many sectors.
“We hope none will have to live in huts if we come to power again.
“We try to ensure that each citizen will at least have tin-shed houses to live in,” she said, urging the people to vote her party to power for a second consecutive term.
Hasina sought votes and blessings from the people of Gopalganj as she had done before.
“I’ll keep working for the welfare of the people if Allah gives me the opportunity,” she said.
