Joy won't run in next polls
Staff Correspondent
Sajib Wajed Joy, son of Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina, on arrival at Zia International from USA, yesterday said he would not contest the upcoming parliamentary election."I will not contest the next election. But I will help my mother and work for the party in the next election," Joy told reporters at the VVIP lounge of the airport. "I have some plans regarding the next national elections," Joy said adding that the plans would be made public in due time. Joy strongly criticised the BNP-Jamaat alliance government saying that it seems no democratic culture is in practice in the country. "The extra-judicial killings and mass torture and arrests by Rab and police are not signs of democracy," Joy added. AL President Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Kazi Zafarullah and other central leaders of Awami League (AL) and its front organisations were present at the airport to receive Joy. Hundreds of party workers also thronged the airport to greet Joy. While talking to the media, Hasina said the defeated forces of 1971 and a power-hungry vested quarter killed Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975 to take revenge of their defeat. The AL president said these evil forces are now in power and continuing their misrule and misdeeds. Hasina said the goal of the Liberation War is yet to be fulfilled after 35 years of independence as repression, corruption, plundering of public money and human rights violation have now become an everyday affair in the country. "But this was not the objective of the Liberation War," Hasina said adding that these intolerable situation has been created with the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "If Bangabandhu had not been killed on August 15, 1975, Bangladesh would have turned into a country like Malaysia and Thailand 15 years back," the AL chief said. She observed that when most of the countrymen are in dire straits now, the prime minister's family grabbed huge public money during the tenure of the alliance regime. The AL president urged people from all walks of life to be united by turning their grief into strength and resist the evil forces to save the nation from their grip in this month of national mourning.
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