Health and Family Welfare Minister and presidium member of the ruling Awami League Mohammad Nasim has said that the government is determined to hold trial of any person involved in any killing for the sake of establishing the rule of law in the country.
“The government would surely try those involved in the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj. Investigation is going on to detect the real culprits behind the incident. No culprit would be spared,” the minister said categorically.
Mohammad Nasim said this while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion at Palki Community Centre at Jackson Heights in New York City on Sunday evening, according to a press release received here on Monday from the United State. The United States unit Awami League organised the discussion marking the Homecoming Day of Sheikh Hasina that will be observed in Bangladesh and other parts of the world on May 17. The US unit AL president Dr Siddiqur Rahman chaired the discussion, also addressed, among others, by lawmaker HN Ashiqur Rahman, Awami Swechchhasebak League president Advocate Mollah Md Abu Kawser and US unit AL general secretary Sajjadur Rahman Sajjad.
Mohammad Nasim, also spokesman of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance, said, “The politics of killing was introduced in the country during the rule of Ziaur Rahman. The culture of extra-judicial killing was also introduced during his (Ziaur Rahman) regime. So, the words like establishment of the rule of law don’t suit the BNP leadership. The nation doesn’t expect good governance from them, nor the people want to learn that from them.”
The minister said that the next polls to the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) will be held under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the year 2019 in accordance with the constitution. Urging the expatriates’ support and cooperation for strengthening the country’s economy, Mohammad Nasim said, “Under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the country will soon achieve food sufficiency while many problems including that of the electricity crisis would be solved soon.”
He stressed the need for unity of the expatriates to strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with a view to building a Bangladesh free from hunger, poverty, illiteracy and corruption within 2021.
The Minister apprised the expatriates that Bangladesh has emerged as a country free from militancy and communalism under the capable leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
