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Sheikh Hasina said wearing badges of boat, the BNP had created trouble in the polling centres and stuffed the ballot box in different elections earlier like city corporations, pourasabhas and Jatiya Sangsad by-polls and then blamed Awami League for these misdeeds.
The prime minister said the BNP candidates are also spreading money to win the polls. “They’ve no dearth of money as they have amassed huge wealth through money laundering, arms smuggling and embezzling orphans’ money,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the BNP leaders are lodging complaints with the Election Commission every day on one hand and are hatching conspiracies to foil the polls on the other hand. “They’re planning to either foil or rig the polls,” she said.
The prime minister said the BNP has another quality that is to put blame on others after committing misdeeds. “They’ve already torched a number of election offices of the Awami League and killed two of our workers,” she said.
Mentioning that spreading illegal money is a character of the BNP, Sheikh Hasina said: “I will tell the people as the BNP has embezzled the public money, let the public money to reach people … take the BNP money, but cast vote for boat.”
She said peace and democracy will not exist and the country will not be developed if vote is not cast for boat.
The country is witnessing massive support in favour of boat and the people are eagerly waiting to vote for the Awami League’s symbol. “Our mothers and sisters as well as the youth have taken to the streets massively in favour of the boat,” she said.
The prime minister said: “We’ll develop the country further by utilizing the strength of the youth and through it Bangladesh will be more prosperous and built as Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Bangabandhu.”
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