Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said BNP made Bangladesh the world champion in corruption for five times.
The Prime Minister also alleged that BNP had hired a special agency to level corruption charges against her family members during its regime.
Sheikh Hasina made the remarks while addressing a discussion at Krishibid Institution auditorium in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Awami League arranged the discussion marking the 48thIndependence and National Day.
The Prime Minister said it is internationally recognised that her family members are not involved in any corruption though Awami League is now in power.
According to UNB, she urged all to remain alert so that the anti-liberation forces can never come to power.
"This independence was earned at the cost of the blood of tens of thousands of people. Those who want to foil our independence should never come to power," she said.
The Prime Minister further said, "The country shouldn't be of militancy, anti-liberation forces and war criminals...it should be built based on the ideology of freedom fighters."
In an oblique reference to Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, she said he had also made an attempt in the US to find if there was any corruption against her family members.
Without mentioning his name, Hasina said he stopped the World Bank's fund for the Padma Bridge project.
"They tried to put corruption blame on us. I also threw a challenge and told them to prove it. But they couldn't prove it... the Canadian Federal Court dismissed all the allegations as false," she said.
AL leaders Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Syed Ashraful Islam, Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, National University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Harun-or-Rashid and Sociology Professor at Dhaka University Dr Sadeka Halim, among others, spoke at the programme.
