Power generation in Bangladesh declined to a great extent due to massive corruption in the five years since the BNP-Jamaat coalition came to power in 2001. The countrymen were fed up with 16 to 18 hours of load shedding every day. At one point, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud, State Minister for Power, was removed from office due to corruption. The new state...
The land recording and mutation is a state service. But the BNP-Jamaat government turned this service into a breeding ground for the corruption of thousands of crores of money. From 2001 to 2006, the BNP-Jamaat leaders and activities created a chaotic situation in the land sector through both fake and original mutations for taking bribes from se...
During the BNP-Jamaat regime from 2001 to 2006, an undeclared and alternative government was operating from the Hawa Bhaban, the residence of the former prime minister's son, Tarique Rahman. The Hawa Bhaban ring looted Tk 2.86 lakh crores by manipulating the prices of daily commodities in the first four and a half years of the coalition governme...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday (October 11) called upon the countrymen to produce more food to tackle any challenge as the world community is apprehending a deep crisis next year. "Food production has to be increased. It is now inevitable and the utmost importance issue for us," she said. The premier was speaking at the beginning of t...
Dr. Rashid Askari: While Joe Biden’s government along with its parasitical European allies and power-starved Bangladeshi political pawns are making allegations of human rights violations against Sheikh Hasina’s government, Sheikh Hasina remains the centre of attention on both the national and international political scene. She k...
The violence and attacks on minorities increased at an alarming rate just before the 2001 elections. BNP-Jamaat terrorists beat and threatened more than half a hundred families to refrain from voting. According to a news report by the Prothom Alo on October 1, 2001, the leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islam and Chhatra Dal-Shibir systematically thr...
The BNP-Jamaat alliance started plundering countless money from the country's every sector including energy, power, climate, telecommunication, and shipping since they came to power in 2001. Denmark withdrew Tk 264 crores (USD 45.5 million) from the development of Bangladesh's shipping sector in 2002 due to the corruption of Khaleda Zia's shippi...
Dr Pranab Kumar Panday: Religious harmony is one of the hallmarks of the culture in Bangladesh. People of different religions have been enjoying the rights of their respective religions in this country since time immemorial. The spontaneous participation of people of other religions in the ceremonies of one religion has given a universal charac...
The regime from 2001 to 2006 will always be marked as a horrible period in the political history of Bangladesh. This regime of BNP-Jamaat is a sign of how hellish a country can be taken by the ruling party. Even today, those days still haunt the people who witnessed the regime. Without waiting, the thugs started a rampage even before coming to p...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she wants to make sure that everyone in Bangladesh gets their own home, land and address as her government continues working for inclusive development. “My aim is to make sure that not a single person remains homeless in Bangladesh,” she told the Bangla service of Voice of America in an intervie...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh's active participation in all important meetings in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) would strengthen Bangladesh's position in multilateral forums along with widening the field of international cooperation on issues relating to the country's interests. "During the UN assembly, Bangladesh actively...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stressed exploring the best possible ways to ensure the digital security of the country and making people aware of it as the world is becoming more complex with the advent of newer technologies. "The world is going through a very critical time and Bangladesh also faces its impact. So, well-thought-out opinions...
The top brushes of BNP-Jamaat grabbed the country’s land using their state and muscle power during their tenure between 2001 and 2006. They built illegal structures by filling up thousands of acres of land in Buriganga, Turag rivers in Dhaka and Shitalaksha river in Narayanganj. As soon as Tarique Rahman gong started illegally occupying 15...
The head teacher of Raghunathpur Primary School of Tala Upazila in Satkhira ran away from the area to save his life after being threatened by BNP-Juba Dal terrorists. As there was no school in that area, Babur Ali, a local, donated 33 decimals of his land and established a primary school in 1991. His son Mizanur became the headmaster of the scho...
The pro-BNP staff in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Medical University hospital drove away more than one hundred patients soon in line with BNP-Jamaat leaders' order after forming the government in 2001. They also swooped on doctors who tried to protect critically injured patients. More than a hundred Awami League leaders and activists, who l...
The United Nations took a cautious stance after the nearly one-and-a-half crore fake voters and the BNP’s election conspiracy came to light. On January 22, 2007, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon vowed to cancel all technical assistance for the BNP-Jamaat monopoly elections. They also closed the office in Dhaka to observe the election. The ...
In an urgent recruitment process, the BNP-Jamaat government appointed 300 party cadres as upazila election officers ahead of the January 22 elections in 2007. In the history of Bangladesh, there has never been such quick recruitment through PSC. The Khaleda Zia government tarnished the Public Service Commission and the recruitment process in gov...
Calling Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as "only hope" for holding the country's founding principal secularism, an opinion piece published in India Today took a dig at the BNP-Jamaat alliance for getting political benefit from the gruesome assassination that left Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members dead on the tragic nig...
Syed Badrul Ahsan: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's insistence in recent times that the sanctions imposed by the West on Russia in light of Moscow's military assault on Ukraine be lifted is a powerful hint of Bangladesh's assertive diplomacy under her leadership. There is little question that the Bangladesh leader, who has been in office long...
Dr. Pranab Kumar Panday: Bangladesh's political climate has always been tumultuous. Nothing worthwhile in this nation has ever been accomplished without considerable effort. Bangabandhu fought for the independence of Bangladesh during his lifetime so that the people of Bengal might be free. After Bangladesh gained independence, Bangabandh...
This work is copyrighted and authorized by the Bangladesh Awami League. You may download, display, print and re-produce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice)for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organization.
