Star Online Report
Prime
Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina is speaking in the
Parliament House during the fifth session of current government. Photo:
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"She [Khaleda] has been giving orders to kill people from her Gulshan office without going back to her residence. People have been burnt alive at her [Khaleda] directive," she said during a question-answer session of the PM in the parliament.
"So it will be logical to bring Khaleda Zia to book as an accused of giving order to kill people. The law enforcing agencies are scrutinising the matter and they will take legal actions in this regard," she said adding that law will take its own course.
Hasina, also leader of the house said, so far the BNP chief has killed 30-40 people in the name of blockade and several hundreds of people ahead of the January 5 elections in the name of foiling the polls.
Seeking countrymen's assistance in combating ongoing violence and anarchy, the premier urged them to nab the blockaders and hand over them to police. She also urged them to alert the law enforcement agencies about any subversive activities to help saving public lives and properties.
Saying the government is committed to maintain law and order situation of the country, the prime minister firmly told the House that any bid to create chaos by the BNP-led 20-party alliance would be contained with iron hand.
"When we are taking the country forward in all sphere, the BNP chief has started killing people again in the name of movement,” she said adding that the Islam even does not support killing people through arson.
Posing a question, the Leader of the House said it was not understandable why Khaleda started killing of general people. “Their [BNP's] barbarous activities overshadowed the brutality of the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971,” she said posing a question, “What kind of politics is this? Are those people who are involved in such brutality a human being?”
Responding to another lawmaker's question, the premier said the BNP-Jamaat had been carrying out mayhem being afraid over the development activities of the government.
She said that the government had been trying to keep the situation normal through deploying police, Rab, BGB and Ansar battalions.
The leader of the House also mentioned that the government has been providing all out assistance to help the blockade victims.
