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Published on July 8, 2015
"It's very unfortunate that BNP chairperson is spreading the falsehood in the month of holy Ramadan," she said adding she (Begum Zia) had told lie following the heinous grenade attack on me on August 21, 2004.
The Prime Minister said this in her valedictory speech on this year's budget session.
Sheikh Hasina said BNP leader is telling lie when Bangladesh is moving forward economically and the country is earning appreciation from global community for its successes.
The Prime Minister said the countrymen know better BNP and Jamaat in the name of thwarting the January 5, 2014 election and movement to unseat the government in January 2015 went on killing spree through unleashing vandalism and petrol bomb attacks.
The countrymen had faced the situation with courage and fortitude, she said now BNP chairperson is trying to shoulder the responsibility of those heinous activities on others.
Showing pictures taken from the different places of the country on atrocities of BNP-Jamaat activists on police and innocent people and arson in transports, the Prime Minister said Khaleda Zia had vowed not to return home before ousting the government.
"But, she had to surrender before the court ending her 93-day siege and blockade programme on charge of misappropriating the fund of the orphans," Sheikh Hasina said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also criticized Begum Zia for her remarks that rural people are starving. A day-labourer now can buy 10 to 12 kg rice with his/her earning.
The government is distributing food free of cost to the ultra poor, the prime minster said. Around five crore poor people could elevate their position to low income to middle income, she said. Responding to the call from the Leader of the Opposition to take drastic action against the drug peddlers, human traffickers and food adulterers the Prime Minister said her government was always active against the social menace.
The government is also making its constant stride for rehabilitation of the slum people, implementing the 'ghare fera karmasuchi' (Return Home Programme, Grihayan Programme and ease city's traffic congestion.
Sheikh Hasina urged the countrymen to extend their help to the government to make the country's economic progress sustainable.
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