Prime Minister and governing Bangladesh Awami League president Sheikh Hasina Tuesday called upon the leaders and workers of her party and its associate bodies, affluent section of the society and well-wishers to extend hands of cooperation to the country’s lower income, poor and working class people.
In a statement, she said the life and livelihood of the common people of the entire country has been paralysed due to enforcing of the “complete shutdown” programme and recent incidents centering the quota movement.
Besides, BNP, Jamaat and Shibir in an organised way set on fire and vandalised metro rail, expressway, BTV Bhaban, Setu Bhaban, disaster management building, different government and private buildings and houses, she added.
They destructed numerous government-owned and private vehicles including buses and trucks by setting fire on these, the prime minister continued.
Sheikh Hasina said that under the circumstances, on 20 July, 2024, the government imposed a curfew temporarily for ensuring security of the lives and properties of the people and returning the life and living to normalcy.
As a result, normal income-generating activities of lower income and working people, particularly daily wage earners like rickshaw and van pullers, hawkers, vendors, day labourer and transport workers, have been hampered, resulting in putting them in untold sufferings, she added.
The Awami League president urged the leaders and workers of her party and its associate bodies from the center to grassroots to stand by the affected people during this crisis period as like as they did so during the Covid-19 pandemic.
