Hasina returns, asks PM to reform her own politics
"After committing so many sins and crimes, what would she (Khaleda) reform? The country has already started sinking owing to her reforms. Does she want to erase the bloodstain on her hands by calling for the so-called reforms?" she said.
Hasina's made these sharp comments in reply to a reporter's question at Zia International Airport in the morning on her return from Italy where she delivered a keynote speech on "The Promotion of Democracy and the Rule of Law".
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at a convention of Political Science Association on Saturday called for reforms for a qualitative change in politics and leadership.
Expressing doubts about the prime minister's proposal, Hasina asked: "Does it symbolise reforms when widespread corruption is taking place and the prime minister is undertaking pleasure trips abroad?"
She added: "The reforms should begin at her (Khaleda) own house that she has been occupying ... let her vacate the Cantonment house, an army property, now that her sons have grown up."
Referring to the killing at a wedding reception in the capital on Saturday, Hasina alleged that the character of the government is to patronise killers and "they (BNP-Jamaat alliance) have shown a new way of killing."
"The new trend of filing cases against Awami League leaders and workers after any crimes will encourage the killers to kill further. They have involved a Jubo League leader in the case in a bid to harass him," she said.
The Awami League chief accused the BNP-Jamaat alliance of destroying the country and tarnishing its image abroad. "They lack confidence as they didn't come to power through people's mandate and this gave rise to nepotism, corruption, politicisation and injustice," she said.
Senior Awami League leaders and the leaders and workers of its front organisations were present at the airport to receive Sheikh Hasina.
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