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May Day: Khaleda calls for tougher agitation
Observer Online Desk
Published :Sunday, 1 May, 2016,  Time : 7:29 PM  View Count : 25
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has called for an intensification of anti-government movement driven by the lessons of May Day.

"May Day testifies to rights won at the cost of blood. We must win our rights by following the lessons of May Day," she told a gathering organised by the Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the BNP's workers' wing, in Dhaka on Sunday.
  
Khaleda Zia claimed it was her government that had strived to fix a minimum wage for workers and protect their rights, denying any credit to the present government.
 
She said the present government was 'forcibly' clinging on to power, "imagining that Bangladesh was their ancestral property".
 
The government of Sheikh Hasina, she alleged, was trying to "do away" with parties and establish "one-party rule".
 
"They are enacting laws that will enable to be in power for ever."
 
There can be no "fair election" under the present Election Commission, she said. "It is what Hasina is like."
 
Criticising the government, she said, "They keep harping on development. But what development have they brought about. They steal more than the developmental work they do."

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