Some political parties trying to create anarchy by exploiting incidents: PM

The Prime Minister made the remarks while inaugurating the work of the Tk 1,542 crore Muhuri-Kohua Flood Control, Drainage and Irrigation Project (Phase I) in the Kheya Ghat area near the Muhuri Bridge in Parshuram upazila.

Referring to government’s various programmes, including Family Card, Farmers’ Card, canal excavation, expansion of upazila health complexes and reopening closed mills and factories, he said if these works are disrupted, it will be the people of this country who will suffer.

“But some political parties are plotting to create anarchy. We have seen what role these political parties played in 1971. We saw what they did at that time, how they committed various injustices and how they harassed and tortured women,” Tarique Rahman said.

He said those political forces won some seats in the last parliamentary elections by misleading people, but claimed that they are now treating the achievement as if they had gained everything.

“We are seeing that, just as they tortured women in 1971, we are again seeing violence against women by them. We are seeing how some members of their covert force are torturing women. And they did not stop at torture. An investigation is underway, and I do not want to comment on a matter that is under investigation. But people say that they did not stop after torturing; ultimately, they ended a person’s life,” the Prime Minister said.

He said there are both good and bad people in the country. “Some bad people are creating some untoward incidents,” he said.

“Today the time has come for us to be cautious about how we will run our country. Today the time has come to decide whose words we will believe and whose words we will not believe. Today the time has come to decide whom the people will support and whom the people will not support,” Tarique Rahman said.

Referring to statements by leaders of what he described as the “covert group” in various media outlets, he said they are giving advice to others despite alleged problems within their own ranks.

“I saw in different media outlets that the leaders of that covert group are giving us a lot of advice, telling us to do this and that. Today, in front of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people here, I want to tell them: please look at your own house first. First deal with how people in your own house are torturing women and doing these things, and then come to tell others what to do,” the Prime Minister said.

The Prime Minister said the time has come to maintain the country’s democratic process at any cost, reports UNB.

“Today the time has come to continue the democratic process of the country at any cost. During the election, we saw how a covert force tried to mislead the people of the country by talking about selling various tickets,” he said.

“Today the time has come to protect the country from them. We have seen how, since the country’s independence and during the Liberation War, they stood against the interests of the country. In 1986, we saw how they stood against democracy. At every point, we have seen that the people of this covert force have always stood against the interests of the people of the country,” he said.