BNP-Jamaat engaged in secret killing to destabilize country: PM

Accusing BNP-Jamaat nexus of different killing incidents like Kalabagan double murder, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the BNP-Jamaat clique has been engaged in “clandestine killing” to destabilize the country.
“Everybody knows who were behind such killings…the BNP-Jamaat nexus has been engaged in such secret and heinous murders in various forms to destabilize the country,” she said. Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League chief, said the BNP-Jamaat nexus was involved in anti-social acts before the January 5 polls. “But failing in the movement to foil the elections, they have embarked on the secret killings,” she said. The Prime Minister made the comments while addressing a meeting of Awami League nomination board for poursabha and union parishad polls at her official Ganobhaban residence here yesterday evening.
PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting. “It’s not a matter of law and order situation… when the country is moving forward such killings are being staged in a planned way to destabilize the country,” Sheikh Hasina said. The Premier said those who are involved in such killings must be tracked down and brought to book. She urged the countrymen to remain alert and resist such killings. She also called upon the people to extend cooperation to the law enforcement agencies by providing information.