Politics of personal gain delivers nothing to country: PM

Noting that the people have no confidence in BNP’s politics, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the politics of personal interest never serves anything to the country and the people, reports BSS.

“The politics that is pursued for the personal gain never gives anything to the country and the people … the history will not forgive those who do such politics,” she said.

The Prime Minister made the remarks when leaders and workers of Bangladesh Awami Sechchasebak League (BASL) called on her at Ganabhaban here on the morning on the occasion of its 24th founding anniversary.

“It’s proved that the country’s people have no confidence and trust in BNP’s politics as the party harboured terrorism, killings and destructive acts, and committed unbridled corruption during its rule from 2001 to 2006,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, said those who plundered the public property in the past will do the same misdeed in the future to change their own fate if they come to state power gain.

The premier said the BNP leaders and workers amassed such a huge amount of wealth through graft that they hired a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent to kill Sajeeb Wazed Joy after kidnapping.

“The plot was unearthed by the FBI through a probe and a BNP leader was punished for it, while the names of BNP chairperson’s adviser Mahmudur Rahman and pro-BNP intellectual Shafiq Rehman came out in the investigation,” she said.

AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader and BASL President Molla Md Abu Kawsar spoke at the function, while BASL General Secretary Pankaj Devnath moderated it.

Earlier, the leaders of Sechchasebak League greeted the Prime Minister by presenting a bouquet.