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Bangladesh PM Declares National Daily "Enemy" Of The Country
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday slammed Bangla-language day by day Prothom Alo and defined it as “an enemy of the Awami League, democracy, and the human beings of Bangladesh,” said bdnews24.com. She criticized Prothom Alo for performing beneathneath the “cowl of darkness” after a seven-year-antique infant turned into advocated to inform a lie approximately meals shortage.
“Those who talk out towards corruption at the moment are speakme in favour of the folks that are convicted in corruption cases,” PM Hasina stated at some point of a consultation in Parliament, said bdnews24.com.
The MPs banged on their tables in settlement with the high minister, saying `shame, shame’. They additionally sounded their aid while Hasina defined the Prothom Alo as an enemy of the Awami League, democracy and the human beings.
“A seven-year-antique infant turned into advocated to inform a lie with the aid of using paying him Tk 10. And that too for a assertion like — we want the liberty to make certain meat and rice [food] for everyone. They posted his words. It turned into all achieved with the aid of using a famous day by day. The call is Prothom Alo, however they act beneathneath cowl of darkness,” stated PM Hasina.
She additionally slammed Prothom Alo for speakme in favour of an unelected authorities for an period in-between period, asking them to suppose who had benefited from the sort of authorities at some point of the 2007-2008 period.
“With a heavy heart, I should say that they by no means need balance withinside the united states of america. They had been elated while an emergency turned into declared in 2007. It turned into then that newspapers rolled up their sleeves [to achieve their goals],” PM Hasina stated.
The high minister instructed the countrymen that they could higher realize who’s favouring an unelected authorities, including that folks that worry to stand the human beings and recognize that they’ll now no longer be voted to strength via elections are out to destabilise the united states of america via one of a kind means, said bdnews24.com.
Sheikh Hasina, additionally President of the Awami League, stated the then caretaker authorities were compelled to offer an election (in 2008) wherein Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) were given simplest 30 seats out of three hundred even as her party-led grand alliance received the final ones.
“They were given simplest 30 seats (withinside the 2008 election) and the way will they get more? We have received aid from the human beings via paintings and this isn’t our fault. We will keep to paintings for the human beings’s welfare,” she added.
She stated in continuation of the election, her authorities has been in strength considering 2009 up to now via the human beings’s mandate following the democratic process.
“They are looking to put off democracy and introduce a central authority with a view to now no longer act democratically. It may be an undemocratic action. Some of our intellectuals, who stay on promoting their intellect, maintain licking the boots of those [corrupt people] for a bit money,” PM Hasina stated.
She additionally slammed americaA for now no longer practicing its democratic norms past the Atlantic, said bdnews24.com.
“Does the definition of democracy alternate with regards to the (nations on the opposite facet of the Atlantic)?” she stated.
The US lectures Bangladesh on democracy to the cheers of the competition parties, she stated. “They are lecturing us on democracy and human rights. What’s the state of affairs of their united states of america?”
“It has the strength to topple the authorities in any united states of america and the Muslim nations, in particular, are experiencing a hard time.”
“They are looking to put off democracy and introduce a central authority with a view to now no longer have a democratic existence. It’ll be an undemocratic action. Some of our intellectuals, who stay on promoting their intellect, simply maintain licking the boots of those [corrupt people] simplest for a bit money.”
