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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed once again to follow the constitutional process for the change of government and urged the opposition BNP to join parliament if they have any proposal in this regard.
"The democratic process will continue in the country … the change of government will come about through democratic and constitutional process," she said while addressing a discussion in the city on Thursday.
Her statement came amid the opposition BNP-led alliance's long-standing demand for restoration of the caretaker government system.
The Prime Minister also promised to cooperate with the lawmakers if they want to discuss formation of future governments.
She said over 5,000 elections -- including by-polls and city corporation and municipality polls – had so far been held in a peaceful manner during the tenure of the present government. "There was no irregularity, no one was killed either."
The ruling Awami League organised the discussion at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre marking the 37th anniversary of assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members.
Ruling out the notion that free and fair elections were not possible under a political government, Hasina, also the President of the Awami League, said her party was not born from the pocket of any military dictator or through any authoritarian order to grab the state power.
She called upon the people of the country to remain alert against those 'players' who were always busy making their own fortune instead of working for changing the fate of the common people.
"We won't allow anyone to play ducks and drakes with the fate of the people of the country," she said.
Recalling the horrific incident of Aug 15, 1975, Hasina said only 15 days before the carnage she along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana had left for Germany for a few days. But their stay abroad lasted for six years.
"We left here (Dhaka) my parents, dear brothers. But after 15 days, we were informed that none of them was alive. We became orphans," said an emotional Hasina.
She said Bangabandhu loved the people of Bangladesh more than his own children.
The Prime Minister criticised the post-1975 governments particularly that of H M Ershad and Khaleda Zia for giving diplomatic postings to the killers of Bangabandhu. They even made the killers parliament members, she noted.
Awami League General Secretary and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, party's Advisory Council Members Matia Chowdhury, also the Agriculture Minister, Suranjit Sengupta and Durgadas Bhattachariya, central committee leader Mohammad Nasim, President of party's USA chapter Dr Siddiqur Rahman and General Secretary of Dhaka city unit Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya spoke on the occasion, among others.
"The democratic process will continue in the country … the change of government will come about through democratic and constitutional process," she said while addressing a discussion in the city on Thursday.
Her statement came amid the opposition BNP-led alliance's long-standing demand for restoration of the caretaker government system.
The Prime Minister also promised to cooperate with the lawmakers if they want to discuss formation of future governments.
She said over 5,000 elections -- including by-polls and city corporation and municipality polls – had so far been held in a peaceful manner during the tenure of the present government. "There was no irregularity, no one was killed either."
The ruling Awami League organised the discussion at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre marking the 37th anniversary of assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members.
Ruling out the notion that free and fair elections were not possible under a political government, Hasina, also the President of the Awami League, said her party was not born from the pocket of any military dictator or through any authoritarian order to grab the state power.
She called upon the people of the country to remain alert against those 'players' who were always busy making their own fortune instead of working for changing the fate of the common people.
"We won't allow anyone to play ducks and drakes with the fate of the people of the country," she said.
Recalling the horrific incident of Aug 15, 1975, Hasina said only 15 days before the carnage she along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana had left for Germany for a few days. But their stay abroad lasted for six years.
"We left here (Dhaka) my parents, dear brothers. But after 15 days, we were informed that none of them was alive. We became orphans," said an emotional Hasina.
She said Bangabandhu loved the people of Bangladesh more than his own children.
The Prime Minister criticised the post-1975 governments particularly that of H M Ershad and Khaleda Zia for giving diplomatic postings to the killers of Bangabandhu. They even made the killers parliament members, she noted.
Awami League General Secretary and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, party's Advisory Council Members Matia Chowdhury, also the Agriculture Minister, Suranjit Sengupta and Durgadas Bhattachariya, central committee leader Mohammad Nasim, President of party's USA chapter Dr Siddiqur Rahman and General Secretary of Dhaka city unit Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya spoke on the occasion, among others.
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