Country’s people cannot be held back by scare tactics: PM 

Today, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman stated that scare tactics will not be able to keep the nation’s citizens in check.

“Fear tactics will not be able to hold back the people of Bangladesh.” The nation’s citizens cannot be subjugated, he declared.

The Prime Minister issued a warning, saying, “Let us remain alert so that no one can create disorder in the country again.” By disrupting public order, we shall no longer permit anyone to observe the 173-day holiday.

Tarique Rahman, also ruling BNP chairman, made the remarks at a public rally held at the Eidgah ground in the town here this afternoon. 

At that time, he highlighted statistics of sacrifices made by, repression on, and false cases filed against leaders and activists of BNP during previous movements.

Noting that through implementation of the election promises, the government will be able to change the country’s fate, the Prime Minister said, “The ultimate source of all power of BNP is the people of Bangladesh. Thus, BNP wants to complete the unfinished work left by Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman for the welfare of the people.”

Tarique Rahman said that implementation of the unfinished works left by BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, which were not executed over the past 20 years by the previous fascist government, has now been resumed by her party BNP for the welfare of the country’s people.

Noting that BNP does those works that benefit the people, he said, “We do not want to sell tickets; rather, we want to do real work. That is why we say- ‘Korbo Kaj, Garbo Desh, Sobar Agee Bangladesh’.”

The Prime Minister called upon the country’s people to work together to build the country.

Since the people have trust in the BNP, he said, they gave their mandate to the party through the 12 February election. 

“The people have given us the responsibility to implement our electoral promises,” Tarique Rahman added.

However, a group of people do not like this public mandate and, thus, they have been delivering speeches in different places, labelling BNP as a cohort of fascism, he said, urging the people to find out who are actually the collaborators of the fascism.

“After August 5, BNP clearly stated that those responsible for killings in July-August must face justice. But, we saw some people saying ‘we have pardoned everyone’,” the Prime Minister said.

He said it was noticed recently that those, who speak loudly, were the same people who went far from Dhaka to hold a meeting with collaborators of fascism, and when people surrounded the place, they could not explain why they had met them.