None will be allowed to foil polls: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (December 24) said none will be allowed to get benefits by burning people to death and foiling the upcoming general election slated for January 7.

She said: "No one will be allowed to get benefit by burning people to death and foiling the election in the soil of Bangla."

the premier was exchanging greetings with the Christian community at her official Ganabhaban residence in the capital on Christmas Day.

Younger daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and only sister of the Prime Minister, Sheikh Rehana, was present on the dais.

The premier came down heavily on those who ordered to launch such heinous attacks and carried the orders.

Referring to an incident of setting fire on a passenger train by the BNP-Jamaat clique, she said that a mother with her little child was killed in the fire.

"We don't want to see such a scenario," she said.

The prime minister questioned what they have achieved by burning people to death, and setting fire on buses, trains and other vehicles.

"What have they achieved by killing people, uprooting fish plates of the railway track and damaging properties of the masses to pursue political ill motive? I don't know what kind of politics it is," she said.

Noting that burning people to death alive is a great sin and injustice, she said," This injustice cannot be tolerated anymore. No religion can accept this. Jishu Christ sacrificed his life for humanity."

Sheikh Hasina said humanity and welfare of the mankind is the main verse of all religions.

"We are running the state maintaining the belief," she said.

The prime minister said the soil of the country is for all irrespective of caste, creed, religions and professions.

"All will live here independently. I wish welfare and development for all," she said.

She also said people from all faiths exercise their religious rituals freely here as Bangladesh is a secular state.

"People of all religions will perform their religious rituals freely (in the country) as religion is for individuals but festivals for all," she said.