No graft in AL regime
Claims prime minister
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, inset, waves at the participants of a large public meeting held at Jessore's Central Eidgah yesterday. Photo: BSS
Launching a scathing attack on Khaleda Zia for massive corruption during her regime, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said no one could say there had been corruption in the Padma Bridge project, there was only an allegation of a conspiracy to commit corruption. “But, during the tenure of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government, the World Bank had stopped funding in communications and power sectors due to their massive corruption,†said Hasina. The prime minister made the remark at a mammoth public meeting organised by Jessore district unit of Awami League held at the Central Eidgah Ground in Jessore town with district unit AL president Ali Reza Raju in the chair. Referring to the recent remarks of the opposition leader that Awami League fears the freedom fighters, Hasina said there is no reason for her party to fear the war heroes as because it was her party that had led the struggle in emergence of an independent country under the leadership of Bangabandhu. She alleged that when the present government is moving ahead with the trial of war criminals, the opposition party along with Jamaat-Shibir is enforcing hartals and killing people, vandalising vehicles and torching those to thwart the trial. Mentioning that the opposition leader had whitened black money paying fine and turned Bangladesh into a corrupt country with massive corruption of her sons, Hasina said, “It's like the thief's mother screams louder." She said, “When the opposition leader had been in India as prime minister, she didn't raise the Ganges water sharing issue. This time she (Khaleda) went to New Delhi to oil the Indian government… she speaks one thing but acts another as she has become crazy for returning to power.†Citing her government actions against various corruptions and irregularities like the Hallmark scam, she said her government wants to eradicate the menace from the country and establish transparency and accountability in all sectors. Hasina said the people of Bangladesh never want to see those to return to power who are making ill-efforts in many ways to foil the trial of the war criminals. She further said the Jessore pourasava would be turned into a municipality if her party is voted to power again in the next general election. Earlier, the prime minister inaugurated the National-e-Service system at the Central Eidgah. Prior to that, Hasina inaugurated the "Bangabandhu Memorial Mural" at Bakultala on Garibshah Road in Jessore. Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, ICT Minister Mostafa Faruque Mohammad and AL Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, among others, spoke on the occasion.
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