<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said Awami League does not need to rig vote for winning any election as it has public trust.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Rather, Awami League gets the votes of the people through its work for the masses, by attaining confidence and trust from the countrymen,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said this while delivering her introductory speech in the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) meeting held at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">‘Does BNP want to come to power by selling St. Martin’s island?’ — PM Hasina asks</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Awami League chief said that whenever her party lost in any election, it was done through conspiracy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“By vote dacoity, (conspirators) deprived Awami League of getting its actual votes or seats, or tried to defeat Awami League,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said that whenever people of the country got the chance to cast their votes freely, they cast their votes for Awami League.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this connection, she mentioned about the election held in 2008 which was held under a caretaker government.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In that election, she said, the grand alliance led by Awami League won defeating the 20-party alliance led by BNP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PM says recent visits to Switzerland, Qatar will accelerate multi-dimensional relations</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“They got only 29 seats and another seat from a by-election, in total 30 seats, all should remember that the people did not cast votes for the terrorist party BNP,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The prime minister said that because of the dismal result BNP did not contest in the election in 2014 vowing to resist the vote.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coast Guard to be built as a modern force: PM Hasina</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said that the voting rights of the people have been ensured by the Awami League government through a long struggle. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>