Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed her firm conviction that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would not have the strength to carry out any movement in future.

‘Khaleda Zia, in future, would not have the strength to think about unseating the government,’ the Prime Minister said during a video conference with the District Development Coordination Committees of Natore and Feni districts and officials of Rajshahi and Chittagong Division and four districts from Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka on Monday.

The Prime minister hoped that the country would be able to recover the losses caused by hartal and blockade programme of BNP-Jamaat in the name of movement to unseat the present government.

In view of this, she urged all to work together and implement the development programmes of the government, saying that she is confident that people of Bangladesh has the ability to overcome any situation.

Right direction and leadership would certainly take forward the country, she added.

Sheikh Hasina said, the BNP chairperson lived in party office for 92 days to unseat the Awami League government. She created problem for common people and burnt innocent people alive which no politician having minimum affection for people can do.

‘Awami League remains in power for working for the country's development. But Khaleda Zia failed to unseat the government as people didn't support her actions. Rather she had to surrender to the court and go back to her home,’ she said.

Sheikh Hasina said the countrymen want peace. So the persons responsible for destroying the peace and stability from public life should be dealt with a strong hand. Each and every culprit responsible for militant activities, killing and hurling petrol bombs at people should be found out and handed over to law enforcers.

She asked the law enforcing agencies to carry out their operations in this regard and said this should be done for protecting the life and property of the people, she said.

Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan conducted the conference while PM's Media Advisor Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, State Minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak, State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadeq and senior officials of the Cabinet Division and the Prime Minister's Office were present.

Asking the officials to make their sincere efforts for timely implementation of the development projects, the Prime Minister said this should be done to alleviate poverty in a quick pace and contain terrorism and militancy as the government aims to build a middle-income country by 2021.

In view of this, the Prime Minister asked the deputy commissioners of all districts to find out first the homeless people under their jurisdiction and go for ‘Ashrayan’ project to build home for them apart from giving allotment of ‘Khas’ land.