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Vested quarters may create anarchy over election: PM

"Next election as per constitution; election-time govt to support EC; people have confidence on EC"


| Updated: January 13, 2018 12:09:32


Vested quarters may create anarchy over election: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said vested quarters might try to create an anarchic situation ahead of upcoming parliament election.

She also warned that people will not accept the loss of lives and property in the name of a movement boycotting the election.

The Prime Minister made the remarks in her speech to the nation on Friday marking the completion of her government's four years in office after the January-5, 2014 national election.

The  speech was simultaneously broadcast by Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar as well as private TV channels and radio stations in the evening.

In her address, PM clarifid that the next general election will be held at the end of 2018 as per the constitution.

"How the election will be held is clearly stated in our Constitution. An election-time government will be formed as per the Constitution which will provide all-out cooperation to the Election Commission to conduct the election," she said.

Sheikh Hasina expressed her high optimism that all registered parties registered will take part in the polls for upholding the country's democratic process.

Sheikh Hasina in her around 27-minute speech said the President constituted the new Election Commission as per the recommendations of a search committee.

"The EC has already gained people's confidence through conducting some local government elections, including ones to two city corporations, in a fair manner," she said.

Describing people as the county's owners, Sheikh Hasina asked them to determine their goals.

"You have to decide what you want to see -- advancement of the country or backward march of Bangladesh. Think for a moment what was the position of the country 10 years back," she said.

She said the government is determined to make the country a middle-income one by 2021 country while a developed and prosperous one by 2041.

"We arenot sitting idle just setting our aims but we're implementing necessary programmes," she said.

The Prime Minister mentioned that the government does not want to stick to the past, but will not surely forget the past, says UNB.

"We'll step forward evaluating successes and failures of the past and correcting the wrong and errors," she added.

Sheikh Hasina pointing out the unbridled corruption, money-laundering and looting of public money as well as killing, torture and other destructive activities unleashed by the then BNP-Jamaat government.

She said they (BNP-Jamaat) gave a rise to terrorism, militancy and Bangla Bhai and carried out serial bombings at 500 places of 63 districts together.

She said the BNP-Jamaat nexus also indiscriminately killed and burnt people, torched houses and set fire to the Holy Quran in the name of a movement to foil the election.

"Some 500 innocent people were killed, and 3500 vehicles, 29 trains and nine launches were burnt," she said.

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