Killers, corrupts forged unity against government: PM

BSS: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the
killers, money-launderers and interest-takers became united against the Awami
League government and feared the country will be
destroyed if they could come
to power. “These characters will plunder national wealth, destroy the country and
become cohorts of the anti-liberation forces if they come to power. So the
people will have to think about them,” she told a civic reception hosted in
her honour by expatriates Bangladeshis living in the USA.
The premier harshly criticized the formation of a new anti-government
alliance led by Dr Kamal Hossain and Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury and wondered how
they will fight corruption keeping corrupts elements along with them.
“Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman were convicted in corruption charges and
we’ve brought back the money they siphoned off abroad. Now Dr Kamal Hossain,
Badruddoza Chowdhury and Mahmudur Rahman Manna will fight the graft taking
these corrupt elements with them,” she said.
She wondered that former caretaker government adviser Barrister Moinul
Hosein and BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed too lent their support to the
new alliance and recalled that both were convicted previously in graft
charges.
The premier said Moinul Hosein was convicted in the Sazu Hossain versus
the state case for grabbing of a house in city’s Kakrail area and Moudud
Ahmed was convicted in a graft case but military dictator H M Ershad pardoned
him and subsequently inducted him in his regime.
AL Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood
Ali and AL’s Office Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap spoke at the function
held at Hotel New York Hilton Midtown here on Sunday evening, while US
chapter AL President Dr Siddikur Rahman in the chair.
PM’s Energy Adviser Dr Towfik-e-Elahi Chowdhury, State Minister for Foreign
Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and AL Joint Secretary and former foreign minister
Dr Dipu Moni were present on the dais, among others.