UNB, Dhaka :Ruling out again the possibility of any dialogue with Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturdaysaid the best option for the BNP chief to surrender to court.”What’s the dialogue with her? What dialogue with the person who is a killer, who has got blood in her hands, whose hands are stinking with the bad smell of burning people?” she asked.The Prime Minister was speaking at a grand rally of Bangladesh Peshajibi Samonnay Parishad at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh.Bangladesh Peshajibi Samannoy Parishad President Justice AFM Mesbah Uddin Ahmed presided over the meeting. Its Secretary General Prof Dr Kamrul Hasan Khan delivered the welcome speech.Sheikh Hasina, also the President of the ruling Awami League, said Khaleda Zia killed infants, expectant mothers as she does not consider people as human being. “On top of it, she’s the leader of militants, who will hold dialogue with militant leader Khaleda,” she questioned.Before the January-5 election, the Prime Minister said, she had invited Khaleda Zia to hold a dialogue, but she rejected it. “I had tried a lot, I had said…let’s participate in the election, even I offered to involve BNP in the election-time government with some ministries, but she didn’t respond.”Hasina advised the BNP leader to surrender before court as an arrest warrant has been issued. “I’ll advise her to surrender, that’s better for her, it’ll better for her to go there,” she said.The Awami League chief also said if Khaleda does not surrender before court the government is bound to act as per the court order. “And that order will be implemented in time,” she said.Hasina said her government will do whatever needed to end the ongoing miserable days that has been created by Khaleda Zia. “This is our commitment,” she said adding that she needs cooperation from all in this connection.The Prime Minister asked the BNP leader that she has no right to indulge in things that only bring bad for the people of the country. “People won’t accept this, they won’t tolerate it,” she said.Hasina said Khaleda Zia has failed to create any movement involving the people of the country.”Yes, we had also carried out our movement, but with support from the mass people. That was a mass movement, the people of the country came out on the roads,” she said recalling that their movement had forced Khaleda’s government to step down on March 30, 1996 after holding a voter-less election on February 16 on the same year.Reiterating that boycotting the 10th general election was a political mistake of Khaleda Zia, Hasina said now she wanted to take revenge on people.”Why do people have to pay for your wrong decision, why? It’s not easy to play with the fate of people of Bangladesh, at least, I won’t allow this as long as I’m alive,” she added.Mentioning Khaleda Zia’s dependency on others to be in the power again, she said Khaleda Zia did not get any support from anywhere.”She didn’t get any response from those on whom she is dependent…. north or west, no country responded to her call, no quarter because of her militant character, no one can support burning people,” she said.Bangladesh Peshajibi Samannoy Parishad Presidium members and PM’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique, Dr Mahbub Hasan, AFM Bahauddin Nasim, MP, architect Habibur Rahman, Dr AQM Sirajul Islam and Anisur Rahman Khan, among others, also spoke on the occasion.Responding to Khaleda Zia’s allegation that the January-5 election was illegal, the Prime Minister said had the election been illegal how Bangladesh have won the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) elections. “The election is illegal only in her eyes, but the whole world has accepted it.”Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and Saber Hossain Chowdhury have been elected the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) chairperson and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) president.Aout the disappearance of BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, the Prime Minister said Khaleda Zia might have sent him into ‘deep underground’. “Who will answer this? We’re looking for him (Salahuddin) for arresting…we’ll arrest him whenever we’ll find him because cases are there against him,” she said.Sheikh Hasina also said Khaleda Zia must say where she has pushed out one of her joint secretaries general from her Gulshan office.Referring to Khaleda Zia’s behaviour when the Prime Minister went to console a bereaved mother at Gulshan, Hasina said she could have taken action against the BNP chairperson for her such behaviour with the head of the government.She blasted the BNP-Jamaat nexus as they are desperately trying to make Bangladesh a failed state by burning people to death, destroying the economy and education system of the country.The Prime Minister said the BNP leadership has created obstacles towards holding SSC examinations of 15 lakh students and the academic activities of nearly 4 crore students through their subversive acts in the name of hartal and blockade.Recalling the contribution of professionals to various crucial moments of the nation, the Prime Minister said they played great role in the struggles of establishing Independent Bangladesh under the leadership of the Father of the Nation and in developing the country after independence with their talents and wisdom.They also played a very important role with courage in re-establishing democracy during the emergency after the 1/11 episode, she said.The grand rally was organised in protest against arson and petrol bomb attacks, militancy and terrorism as well as killing of people and destruction of the economy and education by the BNP-Jamaat alliance.
