e-News® | The NEWS Company…DHAKA, August 09, 2015 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that the overall results of this year’s HSC and equivalent examinations would have been much better, had the BNP-Jamaat nexus not unleashed suicidal acts during the exams. “It is regretful that the BNP-Jamaat clique was engaged in heinous crimes like burning people to death and torching and vandalising public and private property by calling hartals and blockades during the SSC and HSC examinations,” she said. “Had they not unleashed such suicidal acts during the exam period, the overall results of this year’s HSC and equivalent examinations would have been much better,” she added. The Prime Minister came up with this observation after Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over the results of the HSC and equivalent examinations under 10 education boards to the Prime Minister at her official Ganobhaban residence here this morning.
Education Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan conducted the function, while PMO Secretary Suraiya Begum, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim, senior officials of the education ministry and chairmen of the 10 education boards were present. Citing the non-stop hartals and blockades of the BNP-Jamaat during the SSC and HSC exams, the Prime Minister said there was a big problem ongoing in Bangladesh at that time. “That was human-created problem. The BNP-Jamaat was enforcing hartal before the start of that examinations. But they added blockades to it (hartals) when the examinations began. Then they launched burning the people to death by torching vehicles in the name of so-called movement,” she said. Sheikh Hasina said it was a conspiracy of those who want to save war criminals and choke the path of education and stop the country’s development and advancement.
“It was a plot of those who inflicted torture on the people, committed corruption and laundered money abroad when they were in state power,” she said. The Prime Minister noted that holding and participating in examinations at that adverse situation were very painful and risky. “But our boys and girls appeared and became successful in the exams defying all these obstacles….this is a big achievement,” she said, congratulating all successful students. Sheikh Hasina also congratulated all concerned including teachers, as well as officials and employees of the education boards and the law enforcers for holding the examinations in a peaceful manner.
The Prime Minister hoped that those who were not succeeded in this year’s HSC examinations would be successful next time by pursuing study better.
