BNP-Jamaat understand nothing but violence: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said BNP-Jamaat are still trying to harass people in different ways by holding them hostage.

“Terrorists of BNP and Jamaat understand nothing except bomb attacks, grenade attack and shooting. They killed people, burning them and unleashing arson violence … They still are trying to harass people in different ways by holding them hostage,” she said referring to the violence before and during the 2014 general election.

The premier said this while declaring another 12 districts and 123 upazilas free of homeless and landless people and opening the distribution of 22,101 houses among the poor under Ashrayan-2 project through a videoconference from the Gono Bhaban.

Hasina said her government has relentlessly been working for the people.

“We know we’ve an opposition party here. They do misdeeds such as killing people, resorting to arson violence, setting fire to buses and trains, attacking police and killing the general people,” she said.

The premier was connected virtually with the beneficiaries and local people of three places while distributing the houses to the landless and homeless families on the sixth occasion since Mujib Year.

The three places are Barasat Sonar Bangla Palli Ashrayan Project site in Terokhada Upazila under Khulna, Chakla Ashrayan-2 project site in Bera Upazila under Pabna, and Amanullahpur Ashrayan project site in Begumganj Upazila under Noakhali district.

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