The law-enforcement agencies have been asked to remain alert against militancy and its network as the Awami League-led Mohajote is celebrating the party’s landslide victory in the national election, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told BSS here on Wednesday. The nationwide anti-militancy drive will be strengthened further in line with the government’s election pledges as well as ‘zero tolerance policy’ against any sort of terrorism, he said.
The minister said the present government under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been working for the welfare of the people during the last ten years.
The law-enforcement agencies have been playing a supportive role in successful implementation of the present government’s charter of change and Vision-2021 as the success of a government largely depends on the law and order situation in the country, Asaduzzaman said.
He said a vested quarter has been trying to hamper the country’s progress and prosperity by carrying out militant activities but the government adopted ‘zero tolerance policy against terrorism’.
Talking to BSS, Director General of RAB Benazir Ahmed said the law enforcement agencies have been conducting drives against militancy, terrorism and drugs.
Following the government’s zero tolerance policy against terrorism and drugs, the anti-crime elite force is fully involved in campaign against terrorism and drugs to make the country free from drugs, he added. According to the ministry information, the government conducted 93 anti-militancy drives from 2013 to January 2018 aimed at eliminating militants and terrorists from the country.
During the anti-militancy drive, 58 militants were killed and 265 terrorists were arrested and the government launched a special service “999” for police help in any necessary need, it said.
The ministry also revealed that during the BNP-Jammat regime militancy activities was being patronized and its network was spread across the country. With patronization of the BNP-Jamaat government, the heinous grenade attack on Awami League rally on August 21, 2004, was carried out. On August 17, 2005, bomb explosions occurred at 550 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts in the country during the BNP-Jamaat alliance tenure, which created a horrific situation, it said.
The minister expressed his optimism that Bangladesh would become a middle-income country by 2021 as the development spree of AL will continue in the days to come.
“We have become role model for the rest of the world in curbing militancy and terrorism due to successful drives against the menace by the law enforcement agencies,” he said.
Asaduzzaman said under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina a huge development work has been going on across the country, adding, “That is way Awami League was voted to power again to continue the development works.”
He said the government established Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC), Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) and bomb disposal team to ensure safety of the countrymen. The CTTC unit has been dealing strictly against any ill attempt to create anarchy in the country, the minister said adding, “The cyber crime unit of police is also alert about this”.
