M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the killers, money-launderers and interest-takers have become united against the Awami League government to destroy the country.“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 said.
Sheikh Hasina was addressing a civic reception hosted in her honour by expatriates Bangladeshis at Hotel New York Hilton Midtown, USA on Sunday evening, reports BSS.
The premier harshly criticized the formation of a new anti-government alliance led by Dr Kamal Hossain and Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury.
She wondered asking that 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 alleged that former caretaker government adviser Barrister Moinul Hosein and BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed were convicted previously in graft charges.
The premier cited that Moinul Hosein was convicted in the Sazu Hossain versus the state case for grabbing of a house in city’s Kakrail area while Moudud Ahmed was convicted in a graft case but military dictator H M Ershad pardoned him and subsequently inducted him in his regime.
Among others, 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 with US chapter AL President Dr Siddikur Rahman in the chair.
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