Dhaka, May 27: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her government’s firm determination to bring back her arch-rival Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman from London and execute the court verdict against him.
Rahman, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) President who has helmed the largest opposition party since the 2018 jailing of his mother, two-time Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, has been in London since his conviction six years ago in absentia. The court ruled that he masterminded a deadly grenade attack on a campaign rally attended by Hasina and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Rahman, 56, insists the charge is politically fabricated.
“Those who will carry out arson attacks and burn people must not be spared. Whichever the big brother they maintain and whatever they do, we will not spare them, it’s clear. Our actions will continue against those who will cause damage to people,” Hasina, 76, said.
“Now the only task is to bring back the black sheep (Tarique). We will bring the convict in the 10-truck arms haul case, August 21, 2004, grenade attack and champion corruption from wherever he stays and execute the sentences,” she said on Sunday.
“We have already held discussions with the British government so that they repatriate the fugitive convict to us to execute his conviction,” she said.
Hasina said the people of the country did not want to see the militants and arsonists in power again. (PTI)
