‘Democracy was chained through Sheikh Hasina’s arrest’

City Desk  :
Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today said democracy was chained through the arrest of Awami League President and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on July 16 in 2007 by the then caretaker government.

“In fact, democracy was confined through the arrest of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on this day in 2007. But they didn’t realise that imprisoned Sheikh Hasina is more powerful in many cases than a free Sheikh Hasina,” he said while exchanging views with reporters marking the imprisonment day of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the meeting room of the ministry at Secretariat, reports BSS.
Dr Hasan said the then military-backed caretaker government arrested Bangabandhu’s daughter Sheikh Hasina without warrant as she was the lone uncompromising barrier to all injustice, wrongdoings and corruption of the 1/11 government. They had searched her Sudha Sadan residence and misbehaved with her husband, eminent scientist and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission former chairman Dr Wazed Miah, he added.

The minister said thousands of people had protested after the arrest of AL President Sheikh Hasina. For this, they (the then caretaker government) were forced to release her after 11 months, he added.
In fact, he said, BNP leader Begum Khaleda Zia was also released for the movements of Awami League.

He said the people of Bangladesh don’t want such caretaker government again. But the conspirators of the 1/11 have been active in recent times and they are holding meetings at different places secretly and openly and visiting different foreign missions, he added.
The information minister said the countrymen would not give any scope to anyone to establish such a government. The sovereign country will move as per the constitution and as per the people’s expectations, he noted.