Arson terrorists, killers must not grab power again: PM Hasina

Denouncing oppsition BNP and Jamaat as arson terrorists Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to the people to prevent them from coming to the power again.

“The arson terrorist BNP-Jamaat alliance, the killers, the anti-liberation forces and war criminals must not come to power again in this land (Bangladesh),” she said.

The prime minister said this on Tuesday while speaking at a civic reception accorded to her at Ritz Carlton hotel here.

The PM is now in Washington on a six-day official visit to the United States during which she attended the celebration of 50 years of Bangladesh's partnership with the World Bank.

She said that BNP-Jamaat nexus drove Bangladesh to the verge of destruction during their regime.

She said that her Awami League government has been able to put Bangladesh on the "highways of development" through hard work over the last 14 years.

“Bangladesh will keep marching forward. Bangladesh will be built as the developed and prosperous Golden Bengladesh of the Father of the Nation, and that is our aim. We will work keeping that target in our mind,” she said.

Hasina said that the government has built the country as Digital Bangladesh.

“Taking advantage of digital Bangladesh they (BNP-Jamaat) are engaged in spreading lies against us. please do not pay heed to their propaganda,” she told her audience.