BNP is an anti-people political party: Matia

Bangladesh Awami League (AL) presidium member Begum Matia Chowdhury Saturday said BNP only believes in the politics of killing and it is an anti-peasant, anti-labor and anti-people political party.

"BNP believes in the politics of killing . . . It's an anti-peasant as well as anti-people political party," she told a rally of Bangladesh Krishak League (KL) in front of the Jatiya Press Club here today.

The KL, an associate body of ruling AL, organized the programme protesting the indecorous demands and death threats of BNP Jamaat-e-Islami terrorists against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and their anti-state conspiracies.

Matia said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shown generosity to BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia as she (Khaleda) was the lone prisoner in the world who enjoyed a very comfortable life in jail by keeping a maid servant there.

"We did not ask for mercy to anybody when were in the opposition rather we were then in the field of struggle . . . BNP still survives as the Awami League is showing sympathy to them," the senior AL leader said.

Referring to the government's works for the homeless people, she said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina provided red-green houses to the homeless and medical facilities with 30 kinds of medicines free of cost through community clinics.

As Sheikh Hasina is fulfilling her promise, the peasants and hardworking people of Bangladesh are repeatedly electing her by casting their votes, Matia added.

KL President Samir Chandra presided over the rally while AL Liberation War Affairs Secretary Mrinal Kanti Das and KL General Secretary Umme Kulsum Smriti, MP, also spoke.