PM warns Khaleda of power-grabbers, calls for unity to prevent such elements
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia that a vested quarter was harbouring a plan to capture power through backdoor.
She also requested Khaleda to prevent such elements unitedly.
“Let us [the elected representatives] set together the next course of action regarding the caretaker government,” the premier said.
Only elected representatives of the people should decide what to be done to resolve the dispute over the caretaker government system, she said.
“This vested quarter, who has no chance to come to power through contesting polls, is trying to find the loopholes of the elected government in a bid to capture power,” she said while inaugurating a three-month-long Tree Plantation Campaign-2011 of Bangladesh Krishak League at Gano Bhaban yesterday.
Hasina said the decision of holding three elections under non-party caretaker government was taken in the light of the charter of three parties after the political changeover in 1990.
But the people had bitter and strange experiences from the past three caretaker governments, she said.
After coming to power in 1991, BNP had “betrayed” with the decision of the three political parties. Later BNP was compelled to accept the demand of caretaker government following vigorous movement launched by Awami League, the premier said.
After the verdict of the High Court, there is no scope to maintain the caretaker government system in its present form, Hasina said.
“Let us find a way out to make it legal when the Supreme Court had declared it illegal,” she said.
Recalling the past when BNP had vehemently opposed introduction of caretaker system, the premier poked at Khaleda saying “I feel delighted when she, as the leader of the opposition, is now crying in favour of the caretaker government system.”
“During her first tenure as premier, she [Khaleda] has told the nation that only mad and child are neutral. At that time we were in the movement to establish caretaker government system,” Hasina said.
“Now the opposition leader is searching the mad and child for the caretaker government,” she added.
Source : The Daily Star
