Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked the leaders and activists of her party to be united and stay alert to ensure the environment of exercising people's voting right in the upcoming election, as BNP-Jamaat is there to foil the election.
"Every leader and worker of AL have to be united, and the people's right to vote, which we have earned through struggles, have to be ensured. In order for that right to be guaranteed, the environment must be maintained so that people can cast their votes peacefully," she said.
The premier issued this directive while delivering her address as the chair at a commemorative discussion meeting organised by the AL marking the Jail Killing Day at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) here in the capital.
Mentioning that their (BNP-Jamaat) conspiracy is to thwart the election, she said "many hands are behind there to foil the election and they will try in many ways."
"But, our strength is the people, people of Bangladesh," she added.
Sheikh Hasina firmly said that Bangladesh will move ahead with the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the four national leaders, adding that "the few miscreants can't be successful to foil the election."
"None would be allowed to play ducks and drakes with the fate of the people of the country," she said.
AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Presidium members valiant freedom fighter Shajahan Khan, valiant freedom fighter Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram and Simin Hossain Rimi, organising secretary Mirza Azam, central working committee member Dr Mushfik Hossain Chowdhury, Syeda Zakia Nur Lipi, Dhaka South City President Abu Ahmed Mannafi and Dhaka North City President Sheikh Bazlur Rahman, also spoke.
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